The Best of Car Talk - Podcast Rankings and reviews

My dad and I love listening to car talk while on road trips and the four show rotation just isn’t enough. There are so many tv shows on rerun on cable that costs far more than the $30 annual car talk subscription. Totally worth it as my subscription helps support NPR and the shows I love. In these crazy times I would much rather tune in to Ray and Tom for a good laugh and maybe learn something than listen to all the anger that plagues America.

When I was just a wee lad my dad would play this show in the car , I would get so mad thinking to myself, why would my farther wanna listen to this boring talk radio when we could be listening to Black Sabbath , or Iron Maiden! Well now I’m the old dad in my truck and my kids have to listen to what has come to be known as “ dads old guy radio show “ I absolutely love car talk I often find myself listening to the calls and shouting out loud , it’s the clutch it’s the alternator ect , thanks for the show and the memories great show

Tom, RIP. Nostalgic yet relevant. Still just as funny. A dose of these guys will cure your 2023 blues.

This podcast is absolutely the best automotive show out there! A good listen for anyone, even if you don’t care about cars because Tom and Ray are very humorous.

The bottom line:
if you want entertainment, and like laughing, this is for you. If you like automotive related stuff, even better.

NPR has totally ruined the Car Talk podcast over the past few years. I’m a subscriber so I have access to the many versions of Car Talk, but I promise, all we really want this the archive, in order, full length episodes, from oldest to newest. All these feeds like “rust buckets” and “family matters” or whatever, are super confusing and once you’ve worked your way through one and move on to another, episodes repeat. And worse yet, you’ll listen to the BEST part of the show, the puzzler, and then the following weeks episode is absent (it will skip weeks or even months of episodes), so you can’t hear the answer on your next listen. I know the puzzler archive exists, but that is just so annoying. Car Talk fans just want an un-edited chronological podcast, PLEASE.

Since the paid subscription model was put in place for older episodes, I can no longer listen to older episodes that I had downloaded and saved when they were free. Even though the episode is on my device, I’m prompted to pay to listen to it.