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The Best of Car Talk

#2641: How Cheap is Too Cheap?

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Michelle and her hubby need a second car but funds are ‘limited’ and she wants to know if it’s possible to get a decent one for $170? Tommy worries that Michelle is overpaying on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

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

0:20.5

and we're broadcasting this week from the hate mail division here at Car Talk Plaza.

0:24.9

This isn't hate mail, but I'm going to predict that about half of the listeners that

0:29.4

hear are they going to hate it.

0:30.5

Yeah.

0:30.9

We have managed to.

0:31.7

Which half do you think?

0:32.8

Well, you'll find out.

0:33.9

This is as far from politically correct as you could be. But it's so funny. We didn't

0:40.9

author it. We didn't author it and we're just passing it on. Or authorize it. I mean,

0:45.8

occasionally you get a piece of mail and you read it and you laugh out loud. And this is one.

0:52.1

And you can't let that go by. No. So as long, I think that,

0:55.9

I think on balance, you know, enough of the guys will laugh and all the women will hate us.

1:01.8

Right. But they may hate us already. Right. So we'll take a chance. We'll take a chance.

1:06.4

Go ahead. Here it is. I know one woman in particular.

1:11.4

I know one woman in particular. I know one woman in particular, too.

1:14.2

And I know her name, and I know her address.

1:16.7

And his social security number.

1:19.8

And I'll be in the garage tonight.

1:22.6

But here it is.

1:23.8

It's a chain letter, the real man's chain letter.

1:26.6

This chain letter was started in

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