Tag: hate mail
15 Posts
Dec 12, 2012
Just Calm Down: A Fan's Plea to Tom and Ray
Car Talk hears from a listener who wishes Tom and Ray would just stop laughing.
Feb 08, 2012
Quit Picking on Art History Students!
One Art History major has had enough of Tom and Ray's antics.
May 01, 2005
Hey Tom & Ray: Where's your love for American cars?
I am a great fan of your column and that is probably why I get myself into so much trouble. I have been noticing that you answer foreign-car questions more often than American-car questions.
Nov 01, 2004
What's with all the SUV hate?
You mentioned in a recent column that you are often critical of people who don't need SUVs or other behemoth trucks but buy them anyway I consider you two to be reasonably intelligent but what's with this liberal wackiness Isn't...
Jun 01, 2003
The school bus industry takes offence at our assertion that school buses are bad for roadtrips.
Boy am I disappointed I really enjoy you guys and I always thought you knew a lot about cars Since I know next to nothing about cars this is a leap of faith on my part But after reading your...
Apr 01, 2002
Tom and Ray retract: some cruise control systems DO have the ability to slow a car going down hills.
Usually your advice and comments are not only scintillating but also accurate Alas I am forced to come to the defense of the poor father-in-law you wrote about a few weeks ago He wanted to know if his cruise control...
Jul 01, 1997
The owner of a brake shop is hot under the collar after Tom & Ray recommend using factory brake pads on a Nissan.
I own a Porsche and a subscription to my newspaper It's the newspaper I'm having trouble with Judy wrote to you a while back with squealing brakes on her Nissan ZX She had just had Wagner pads put in and...
Apr 01, 1997
One of those rare cases where both the dealer and the newspaper columnists were 100 percent correct.
Sleazeball is the correct term to describe you guys In a recent column you told Kathy that was a fair price for a new ignition module on her Chevy Lumina The price of an ignition module is about in a...
Jul 01, 1995
Don't call our Ford Escorts cheap!
I am a steady reader of your column Recently you called the Ford Escort a cheap small noisy car I resent this Three of us here have Escorts--good gas mileage no problems comfortable We are very happy with our cheap...
Jun 01, 1995
What do you always side with the ladies?
You guys are always downgrading men when it comes to automotive knowledge You almost always publish incidents where the woman is right and the hubby or some other guy is wrong Are you guys afraid of women Rudy TOM No...