The Best of Car Talk

America's funniest auto mechanics take calls from weary car owners all over the country, and crack wise while they diagnose Dodges and dismiss Diahatsus. You don't have to know anything about cars to love this one hour weekly laugh fest.

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#2556: Jeep Mangler

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

Gary was about to go pick up his Jeep from his mechanic when they called him to say that there had been a 'mishap'. Turns out that this shop's idea of...

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#2555: Tell the Truth

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

Judith is in possession of a machine that can determine when a person is lying just by measuring intonations in the voice. This is a mechanic's worst...

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#2554: Livin' the Dream!

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

Becca's '75 Dodge Dart doesn't seem to want to shut off sometimes. Will a potato in the tailpipe cure this one, or will Click and Clack find a better...

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#2553: What's in a Name?

Episode Date: July 5, 2025

Lisa Carr should be the head of some Texas dealership's leasing office, right? Instead, she's duking it out with some mechanics telling her that her c...

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#2552: A Second Opinion

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

Eric isn't done with medical school yet but he's already being called-in for second opions... by his mechanic. Can Doctors Click and Clack help to sav...

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#2551: No Shift

Episode Date: June 28, 2025

Gus has an old pickup that won't shift into park, which makes leav ing it anywhere that isn't dead flat a real challenge. All the other gears work fin...

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#2549: Fix it or 'Fix it'

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

Alita is so bored up in Quechee, Vermont that she and her boyfriend think it'll be more fun to put a brick on the gas pedal of their Nissan and watch...

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#2548: Correlation Run Amok

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Teddi and Gloria both have stumbled onto personal rituals to deal with their unreliable cars. In Teddi's case she's struggling to start her car in the...

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#2546: Death Valley Dinesh

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

There are thrill seekers and then there is Dinesh. Dinesh wants to walk through Death Valley in the middle of Summer -presumably because 'it's there',...

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#2545: The Cruller Curse

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

To combat the curse of regular, expensive, brake failures Tamitha has made an offering to the brake gods of a donut that sits on her dash. Months late...

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#2541: It's Raining Cars

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

The freeways in Los Angeles are no place for the faint of heart. After surviving a multi-car pileup, Matt feels incredibly lucky to be safely ensconce...

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#2538: Noah's Park

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

Noah's about to go on a 'voyage' of sorts(Think endless concrete and iron bars instead of ocean). His beloved, a '76 Dodge Van, will be pining away fo...

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#2537: The Bro

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

Nancy's hubby has finally gone too far with his car gadget hobby. He's constantly taking an oversized undergarment on and off the front of his Acura....