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The Best of Car Talk

#2621: Worst Car of the Millenium

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

At the end of the last millenium there were plenty of motorheads proclaiming this Ferrari or that Maserati as the ‘Best Car Ever’, but only two guys were willing to figure out which were the worst cars ever made. That’s right, our masters of mediocrity pull no punches on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers

0:20.9

and we're broadcasting this week from Kaiser's Palace. That's the way they taught us to say it

0:25.2

in Latin. That is the way you say it. Kaiser. That's the only way to say it. Yeah, I like

0:30.7

Caesar's Palace better. Anyway, isn't that the place where they give out all the big awards?

0:35.7

Yes, it is. That's the place. Well, today on this very show, we will be announcing the car, our listeners, have voted the single worst car of the millennium.

0:45.1

Yeah.

0:45.4

In fact, we'll give you the single worst car top ten.

0:51.0

Our listeners have spoken and we'll reveal the winner and, of course, all the runners-up in this very show.

0:55.9

I mean, there's been voting going on as a frenzy.

0:58.4

This is exciting.

0:59.2

I hope we have the appropriate drum roll sound effects prepared here in the control roll.

1:04.6

Dennis will have them.

1:05.4

Don't worry.

1:06.0

But first, look, this is a complete coincidence.

1:08.8

We have a news flash that may very well lead to the worst car of the next millennium.

1:15.1

Flash, read the news.

1:16.6

Here's the news.

1:18.1

Bo-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-be-b-be-b-be-b.

1:19.4

Rome, AP.

1:22.2

I thought it was A-D.

1:24.4

Italian automaker Fiat is on the verge of striking a partnership deal with who?

1:30.3

General Motors.

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