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MAR
04Bad Day to be a Crash Test Dummy: IIHS Tests Automated Braking Systems on SUVs.
04Subaru Recalls a Few Million Cars Because of Fabric Softener?
12Anti-Theft Idea We Wish We Had Thought of First
13Help Us Create a Car Talk Spotify Playlist
21Bad Jokes: Springtime Edition
APR
17Lame Jokes: Philosophy Edition
MAY
07Fido: Fetch Us a Ride!
JUN
27An Invitation From Car Talk
30Electricity jokes are always current!
JUL
24Car Talk Saves Lives?
JAN
02Want Ray's Help? Ask Car Talk a Question!
11The dog, the bicycle and the old man.
FEB
07Caption Contest: Of Basketball and Vans
13Caption Contest!
14Lame Joke! Valentine's Day Edition
14Another Valentine's Day Joke
MAR
07The New Taxi Driver
14Did You Save Room for Pi?
23Bob and the Magic Lamp
APR
06Lame Joke: The Baseball Game
06Cabbage Caption Contest
11Literary Jokes
20Lame Joke: The Magician and the Parrot
JUN
26Lame Joke: A guy walks into a bar...
JUL
02A Few Truly Bad Puns
17More Bad Jokes: Chemistry Edition
18The Puzzler is on Vacation!
31More Bad Jokes: Roman Empire Edition
AUG
27Lame Jokes Dedicated to Musicians
OCT
19Lame Joke: The Job Application
31Lame Joke: The Hitchhiker
NOV
21Lame Joke: The Bad Parrot
DEC
24Lame Joke: Holiday Edition
FEB
15A New Monk Arrives
MAR
01Buy Your Kid a Minibike Before It’s Too Late
08Automotive Rewrites: Literature Gets the Car Talk Treatment
13What Did the Traffic Light Say to the Car?
20The Feather Duster Special
APR
04Don't Drive Like His Brother
07Jokes to Tax Your Patience
MAY
19The Mechanic and the Moth
22Fan Takes Issue With Car Talk Blogger's Use of Word "Issue"
25Lame Joke: The South Pacific Collision
JUL
21Car Talk's Summer Driving Tips
AUG
31Is a Flooded Car Totalled?
NOV
08"It'll be OK William, hang in there buddy!"
22We're Thankful for These Lame Jokes
DEC
04Terrible Joke: The Wasp Expert and the Record Shop
JAN
18Brilliant or Bogus? Vote now.
MAR
14Car Talk Owner Reviews
JUL
07Deep Car Thoughts With Rob Siegel, the Hack Mechanic
15Kornbluh Talks: Stuck in Cuba with Car Talk
NOV
11Is Your Car Prone to Poop? (Bird Poop, That Is).
DEC
14Christmas Tree Transport: Whatever Works
JUL
30Henry Is 10!
AUG
07Should a 16-Year-Old Have a Car?
25Take the Quiz!
SEP
12Form or Function: Vote Now
14Automatic Brakes to Become Standard
22The VW Betrayal: Car Talk Interviews Dan Neil
22I bought a 2015 VW diesel. I also suffer from Asthma. Boy, am I ticked off.
OCT
14Busting Thieves By Putting Your Key in the Freezer: Boooogus!
15Caption This!
NOV
26What Is Car Talk Grateful for This Thanksgiving?
JAN
24Winter Driving with the Pros: Alta Ski Area
28What a Drag: Time to Get Rid of Outside Mirrors
FEB
17Cars and Cold Snaps: FAQs
28Outed: Our 500,000th Facebook Fan
MAR
07Car Talk Crossword Puzzle Challenge!
09Vote Now for the Best Road Sign Ever
11Which Public Radio Host Are You?
11Guess That Car: Car Wash Special
11And the Answer Is...
22Pothole Season: Where Does the Pavement Go?
22Which State Has the Worst Potholes?
APR
10Distracted Driving: The Hands-Free Myth Persists
MAY
21The Zipper Merge: Vote Now
JUN
06National Doughnut Day: Name That Doughnut
15Car Talk Pays Homage to Long-Suffering Dads Everywhere
22We Got an Ice Resurfacer!
JUL
03And the Winner Is . . .
18Tom and Ray Saved the Day!
26The Andy Letter Revisited
29Coincidence? What Do You Think?
29Henry is 9 ~ PMC 2014
AUG
05Vote Here for the Best Business Sign!
16We Have a Winner!
21Foreign Accent Syndrome
29Automotive Haiku!
SEP
12"No Man's Job": Female Mechanics in Senegal
30Guess That Car Part: It's a...
OCT
01Guess That Car Part!
30Vote Now for the Scariest Car!
31And the Winner is . . .
NOV
03What Will Happen to the Show?
03Listen
03Tom Magliozzi 1937-2014
03The Quotable Tom Magliozzi
04What People Are Saying
20The Ugliest Snout?
JAN
11Move Over Beowulf, Here Comes a Ford Focus
11Flashback: Foreign Accent Syndrome
18Vote: What's the Ugliest Car?
31Some Things Cannot Be Unseen: Ugliest Car Winner
FEB
07Winter Driving with the Pros: The South Pole
19Winter Driving with the Pros: Mt. Washington
MAR
07It's Not a Cream Puff...
APR
03Shock Value
18Ray Reflects on the Boston Marathon Bombing
MAY
01And the Winning Caption Is . . . Vote Here!
21When to Replace Your Brakes? Our Top Ten
JUN
05No Exit: Vote Here for Best Caption
14"Well, My Father Always Said . . . "
20Caption Contest: Duck and Cover!
JUL
29A Note From Catherine "Frau Blucher" Fenollosa
31Henry is Eight!
AUG
06Guess That Car!
09Now You See It, Now You Don't
14You Hate It, You Really Hate It!
16Something Serious, For a Change...
22Ride of Frankenstein
SEP
09Ugly by Accident
11A Moral Quandary For Our Age
17Women Drivers, Always . . . Swearing?
27Vote For the Ugliest!
OCT
02How Does an Engine Work?
15Caption Contest: Dogs in an RV
15Ugly by Accident: The Winner Is . . .
25Dash Cammes 2013 Schedule
NOV
18Trash or Treasure? The Action Figure Saab
22Join the Car Talk Lackey Army!
26Winter Driving Tips. From Mars.
DEC
04Miss Paula? We've got the Highlights.
17Something We Think is Pretty Cool
17The Twelve Days of Christmas
JAN
06A Car Tune for a Good Cause
09Shameless High Voltage Alert!
13Amish Visits Car Talk Plaza
18Snotsicles: The Definitive Image
19Flashback: Tom and Ray's MIT Commencement Address!
23My Engine Is Making This Strange Sound...
24Tom and Ray Help Out Cupid
26Limited Edition Subaru?
27Bribing the Guard Puppy?
31That's A-Moray!
FEB
02Who's the real "High Voltage" at Car Talk Plaza?
03Car Saves NPR Station
06Why Would You Give Away a Perfectly Good Car?
07Three Cheers (or Charges) for the Volt
08Quit Picking on Art History Students!
09That's One Way to Get a Free Paint Job!
13Car Talk In the Comics: A New Low
17Car Talk Talks Shop With OK Go!
22NHTSA's Misguided Driver Distraction Guidelines
27Extra: Shocking Photos of Ray . . .
MAR
13If Road Is Underwater: Irish Logic Explained
19Good Translators Are Worth Every Penny
29Our Banjo Player!
APR
13A Good Education Can't Hurt!
25Now We Remember Where Tom Parked the MG!
27In Defense of Yak Husbandry
MAY
01Untested Medical Uses for Car Talk
03What Are Car Talk Fans Called? Tappetheads?
04Confessions of a Car Talk Lackey
08Sonja Henie's Tutu!
09House Fire Caused by Electric Car
11If You Think You Know the Answer...
15New Life Forms Discovered at Car Talk Plaza?
18Car Talk Plaza: The Voicemail
23Exclusive In-Studio Test Flight!
24What Car Should A Clown Drive?
30Steve Martin Outed as Car Talk Fan!
31Deathtraps of Yore
JUN
01Queen of the Mechanics
08Time to Get Even Lazier
12Ta Ta to the Tire Gauge!
15Kaboom, I Say!
25We've changed the American conversation!
26Recently Found In Box 3500
28Tommy's Defining Moment
29No Cars Named for Dogs!
JUL
02DIY Stop-Motion Rebuild!
03Is That an Egg Timer or an EV?
05Why can't they sound like this in New York City?
05Most Bogus Auto Repair?
06Nice Yacht, Buddy!
09Crank Up the NPR, Dude!!
09It's Official: CDs Are the New Drink Coaster
10Bugsy Immortalized!
11Emergency Tacos?
13Scream & Swerve No More?
16"Easy" Parking for Women?
25Now THAT'S a Road Trip!
26Henry Is Seven!
31Steamy Summer Fun: Cooking on Your Car (Seriously)!
AUG
17Thanks!
SEP
07Our Worst Cars Ever
15Name Tom and Ray's Cars!
20Car Talk and Ohio?
22A Special Post-Show Visit
26Car Talk Plaza: The Early Days
27A Quarter Century of Sloth, Ignominy and Bad Car Advice
OCT
04Flashback: Hey Dad, Remember When Your Car Blew Up?
09The Big Mistake: Or, Who Let Those Clowns on NPR, Anyway?
12Possibly His Greatest Achievement: How Steve Jobs Made Car Talk More Bearable
18Flashback: Car Talk in Outer Space
19Car Talk Plaza: Japan Edition
26What's Your Favorite Bumper Sticker?
NOV
01Vote! Best Bumper Sticker of All Time
07We Have a Winner!
09Car Talk Presents... Thank a Mechanic Day!
09The Porsche 420?
16Flashback: Tom and Ray's First Garage
19Car Talk's New 25th Anniversary 2 CD Set
19Thank a Mechanic Day
DEC
04By the Numbers: How Your Hour Is Wasted
07Don't Drive Like My...Dog?
12Just Calm Down: A Fan's Plea to Tom and Ray
17The True Cost of Being a Jerk
19Not All Mechanics Have Boats
21Calling All Lame Jokes!
JUN
30Happy Birthday Tommy!
JUL
06S.S. Boat Payment
29Car Talk Theme Tune, Now Digitally Remastered!
AUG
30Tom, Ray and . . . Belly Dancing?
SEP
23The Mechanics of Reasoning
OCT
25Click and Clack recommended a tattoo for an 11 year old?!
NOV
10Polluting Young Minds
DEC
09It's Baaaaack...
APR
02About the Staff Blog
MAY
03Not Always A Waste of A Perfectly Good Hour
07Tom and Ray's Relative Back Home?
13You Know You've Arrived, When...
OCT
15LaHood Sticks His Neck Out for Safety