The Best of Car Talk
Hosted by Ray and Clack and Click · NPR
4.7from 16,366 ratings
- 285
- Episodes
- 273
- Transcribed
- 16,366
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 999
- YouTube views
About 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. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org (http://plus.npr.org/). You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, and Car Talk's perks include full archive access, new(!) call-in bonus episodes with Ray, and sponsor-free listening.
- Publisher
- NPR
- Category
- comedy · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
273 of 285 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
#2688: The Noisemaster
31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#2687: The Joys of Spite
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#2686: Extra Virgin Brake Fluid
Inside a recent episode
#2688: The Noisemaster
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Mm-hmm. Is driving naked prohibited? Well, no, not specifically, but there are other laws which prevent you from doing that. Yeah, what about going to the drive-thru in your pajamas? Does that count? How big is the booklet from the Louisiana Department of Motor Vehicles? I don't know. Like 10 pages? […]
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- Lee
- Berle
- Jeff
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 999
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 16,366 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts The Best of Car Talk?
Ray and Clack and Click host the show. Published by NPR.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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