Happy Holidays from the Best of Car Talk! We had our eye on a really ugly holiday sweater for you, but they didn’t have your size. Instead, we thought you might like to take a break from all the ...

The cheapest car on the market right now, the Nissan Versa, supposedly has automatic braking, forward and backward. How do I know if it is actually working, and that I can trust it? The consequences ...

Ever since Smokey Yunick recommended it in the 1970s, I’ve been using synthetic motor oil. Now, along comes something called a “synthetic blend.” Nobody can tell me the ratio of synthetic oil to ...

DEAR CAR TALK: When I was learning how to drive back in the 1970s, I was told that before turning off the car, a driver should first make sure all of the accessories (wipers, radio, heater blower, ...

We have a 2017 Ford F-150. It has a gas-saving feature that turns the engine off when we stop at a traffic light for more than a couple seconds. My husband turns the switch for this feature to “off” ...

I do volunteer trail work in the Cascades with a crew. Yesterday, my tire pressure light went on while I was going out to work. I pulled off the road and looked at everything and neither heard nor saw ...

Ray and Tom Magliozzi started "Car Talk" on NPR in 1987. It's the end of the road for NPR's beloved "Car Talk" after 30 years, which will bring changes to WVXU-FM's weekend and weekday lineups in ...

The familiar laughter of Car Talk hosts Ray and Tom Magliozzi will dwindle on public radio starting in October, but the show isn’t puttering into the junkyard just yet. Many public radio stations will ...

We could have titled this show, "Happenings on Goat Hollow Road", where Ruth and her husband have clearly run out of things to talk about because they are now arguing over the proper way to jumpstart ...

Twitter has a habit of drawing out old memories. Sometimes it’s about an early aughts bad haircut decision, other times a recall of when you signed up for the accursed social media. Far better than ...

Car Talk launched as a local show on WBUR in Boston back in 1977, hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack. In 1987 the show went national and was a huge success for NPR. Tom ...

DEAR CAR TALK: As the dad of a nuclear family of four, I am the shade tree mechanic for a fleet of four vehicles. I do stuff like oil changes and bulb replacements and keep everybody's fluids and tire ...