Tag: music

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Sammy Hagar says  "I Can't Drive 55" is the reason he never gets a ticket from traffic cops when he's out airing his performance car collection--which includes seven Ferraris. 

Lisa's Volkswagen Jetta will play the radio and CD player without the key in the ignition. It never did this before. Can Car Talk explain what gives?

Tom Bodett now famously outed himself for hating the song "Convoy," to the point that it made him evacuate from the lower 48. But the story behind the song "Convoy" is one of the greatest swindles ever to be perpetrated on the American public. It's at the intersection of bumpkin music, twin oil crises, the truckers' strike, and the close of the Mad Men era, and you've got to read it to believe it.

Some songs are perennial reminders of the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Others just make your headache worse.

You kids have it easy. You jump in the car with your phone in your pocket and your car is smart enough to recognize the music there and starts playing it automatically, LIKE MAGIC. In my day, we had primitive methods for getting music in the car AND WE LIKED IT. Here's a look at how we got music in cars in the days before Bluetooth.

How one terrible song drove Tom Bodett away from civilization and into the wilds of Alaska.

Car Talk bids farewell to Earl Scruggs, who plays banjo on our theme song.

Car Talk talks shop with the band OK Go on the making of their auto-musicological feat, a music video featuring a car that plays 1,000 musical instruments.