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Car Talk Doubles Down on Podcasting! Read more. My year-old, lb. Unfortunately, she won't use either the steps or the ramp I got What causes my wife's low-mileage Honda Civic SI's airbag warning light to come on occasionally?

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With more and more EVs on the road, charging is becoming a big issue. I bought a new Buick Rendezvous in It has , miles on it now. It has been well maintained and driven by me, now a year-old lady.

I've noticed a new paint on late model cars and trucks. It's not the color, but the texture or overall effect that stands out. It doesn't. I have a Subaru Ascent that I like very much. It has slightly less than 22, miles. And we were very lucky to grow up in a happy and safe household. We all loved being together, and we just enjoyed each other's company. Overall, I'd say it was great.

And I consider myself very lucky that I've had that my whole life and still do. On how it felt to host Car Talk with his brother:.

I'll tell you one thing, it was never work, either. I mean, Tom and I would come in — often we rode in in the same car — and we'd be laughing all the way in. We'd do the show, and we'd laugh all the way home! It was always fun. And then we had lunch to look forward to! We'd have bagels before the show, and then once we finished the show we'd go and have lunch!

I mean, come on! In celebration of the show's more than year-long run on the air, WBUR's Cityspace will host an event , both in-person and online, on Thursday, Nov. Get tickets here. Tommy and I did everything together, and people couldn't fathom that either. It was a great run we had. And the truth is, you know, I consider myself very, very lucky to have had Tommy as long as I had him. And I wish he was still here. But I can look back at all the fun things we did and not feel at all like I got cheated, you know?

I mean, it's like, 'What a wonderful time we had! You know, Tom and I have always been who we are. So the show is completely unrehearsed, unvarnished and — what's the other word?

You know, it was completely amateurish. And I think people listened to a large extent to see how many mistakes we'd make in a given hour. Somebody would ask, 'How do I replace the spider gears in my differential on my Dodge pickup truck? What are you, out of your mind? You're never going to get that truck to run again! And I think that freed up people who were listening to call and ask what people might perceive as a stupid question.

And we would laugh, and so would the caller. On using discussions about cars as a delivery mechanism for talking about life and relationships:. Because sooner or later it all comes back, doesn't it? I mean, people's lives are so intertwined with their cars that it's hard to separate the two, especially when you get familial relations involved.

For example, a woman would call and say, 'Well, my father-in-law says that I have to warm the car up for 20 minutes. And then after a while we said, 'He's an idiot! You know, you don't have to tell him he's an idiot. While the hosts won't be as involved, NPR will continue to air a program that combines old material and a few updates from the Magliozzis. In a statement from NPR, Ray Magliozzi, 63, jokes, "My brother has always been 'work-averse,' Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him!

The show will celebrate its 25th anniversary on NPR stations before the brothers retire. The brothers actually have been doing the show for 35 years, with 10 of those in Boston before hooking up with NPR.

The Magliozzi brothers posted a blog entry at cartalk. Ray went on to note that he thinks it "unlikely" the brothers will change their minds about retiring, but leaves the possibility open.