This show is at least ONE good thing about NPR (but we all know about the news coverage though!)
I enjoy(ed) listening to them, but they're huge anti-Bush-GOP lib-dems. Heard one of them comment on the 2004 election, back in late November; seems they can't keep their politics out of their work, like the Keillor putz.
The show can be funny. In the Boston/Cambridge area there is another car radio show, hosted by Junior Damato, that gives out MUCH better info on car problems. The host is online with the Mitchell on demand diagnostic system and can let callers know about known problems and factory recalls and factory service bulletins, while he speaks with them. He isn't as funny as the Car Talk guys and he doesn't askl what color their car is, but he gives much better advice.
Lieberals and with a politico-economic agenda. they're empty-hats and mouthpieces for the major 'American' mfgrs. Try to get them to be just even-handed about the VW TDIs, for instance. Ping and Clatter, the Collapsed-tappet Buddies.
bump for later.
I always wondered why they had so many inept callers. The screening and call back gives the producers an ability to put so many "car repair ignorant" people on the air. Although I would suspect that is the case with your average NPR listener.
I think the Bobby Lykis Car Clinic Network show (national network) on Saturday mornings is one hundred times better information for the average driver. Lykis knows car mechanics and his show is very informative with no BS. His manner of dealing with folks comes across as quite sincere and he manages to make listeners think, "hey, I like this guy and I can do business with him".
Go to: http://www.carclinicnetwork.com/home.html
Gimme Jr. and Sr. and The American Chopper any day.
National Public Radio -- The Dodge Dart of broadcasting.