#2418: The Great Montreal Hotel Fire

When all hope seems to be lost for humanity we can still rely on practical jokes to keep us going. Feel the Schadenfreude on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up for Car Talk+ at plus.npr.org/cartalk Lea ...  Show more

Kerry has a pothole in the alley behind her house that is so big the locals have named it, "The Pit of Despair". When the weather has been dry, her Honda CRX can climb down into, across and back out of it ok, but after a few days of heavy rain it can be rough seas in the ol' Pit. ...  Show more

Adam and Matt are both here for this episode of Car Cast. The guys open up the show talking about the LA Auto Show coming up in November. Next they get into a discussion about electric trucks and how the silence of the electric engine may add to the experience of taking a truc ...

This podcast features behind the scenes from show members and moments that happened after we turned off the microphones. Morgan2 brings in Bobby to talk about behind the scenes of his fiancé Caitlin stopping by this week. Plus Eddie and Lunchbox talk about what went into their CM ...  Show more

Bobby talks about the passing of Kobe Bryant and his thoughts on how the Grammy Awards addressed his passing last night. Bobby had a list of celebrity cars and asked everyone on the show about their first cars. Raymundo has a nightmare Uber situation where the driver wouldn’t ret ...  Show more

“You can’t fire me, I don’t work in this van!” We expand one of our favorite mailbag questions to a full-length episode, dedicating this week’s episode to Office scenes in the car. We talk about how those scenes set up unique conversations between characters and move the plot for ...  Show more