The cartalk.com TIME KILL WEEKLY Special "New Car Selection Hassle Reduction" Edition ______________________________________________ Killing Time, Unencumbered by the Work Process ______________________________________________ Maury Maille, Editor
What's new at Car Talk Plaza? Some actually useful info: Our brand-spanking-new Car Talk Auto Advisor. Take a few minutes, tell the Advisor about your driving habits, your automotive likes and dislikes... and it'll tell you what new cars you should consider. (How well does it work? Consider this: Time after time, it reliably told Tom he should stay home with the doors locked. In our book, that's a perfect "A"!) Seriously, we think it's a neat tool that's really quite useful. Give it a try by clicking on the link on our homepage now at http://www.cartalk.com Know someone who's shopping for a new car? Pass the link along and help them whittle down their options. If you do give it a twirl, let us know what you think. You can e-mail us anytime via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html Here's something really bizarre: For reasons totally incomprehensible to us, some of our fellow suffers want MORE Car Talk. And, some of them own iPods or other digital players. If you fall into these categories, you might want to know that, in addition to the free Real Player option on the web site, Car Talk is also available via weekly podcast. Previous shows are also available for download. For more info, click on the Audible link at the top of http://www.cartalk.com Car Talk Upfront Admission: Audible charges a few bucks to download shows. Why? Because, unlike podcasts of All Quilt Patterns Considered, we've got BILLS to pay around this joint! The dinero that dribbles in from Audible help pays for all the free stuff on our web site -- actual useful car information, free streaming of this week's show, and other features. Speaking of which -- ever wonder what REALLY goes on at the actual Car Talk garage? Well, we've sent our intern, Libby, on a top-secret mission: Find out what Ray is doing all those hours! Her report is now complete, and the full exposé is available on line, right on our lousy web site. Join Libby, Ray and the rest of his gang now at http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/rays-garage/ Just don't tell the IRS, the Better Business Bureau, or the Worldwide Amalgamated Union of Upstanding Mechanics. Yours in catching Ray with his Carhartts down, Maury Maille Chief Garage Snoop Car Talk Plaza P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke Of The Week, courtesy of Dana Lee: Did you hear about the horrible crime at the animal rights activist's office? The Beef Council sent in a spy and when the vegans found out he was a plant, they ate him. ********************** Write Tom and Ray -- Please! Been meaning to write us a witty, genius, evocative, insightful letter? No? All right, forget genius then. How about sending us something funny we could read on the air? Write Tom and Ray right now at http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html *************** Useful information alert: How to Get a Free Car Talk CD or Booklet Tired of paying auto club dues to an outfit that lobbies against environmental causes? Check out Better World Club -- and in the process get a Car Talk CD or booklet for free! Better World is an auto club with genuinely decent values -- unlike some others we could name... Whose initials happen to be AAA. Better World Club cares about... *Your environmental interests -- it gives 1% of its revenue to environmental clean up and advocacy. *Your consumer interests -- it even offers discounts on hybrid rental cars. *And it has the nation's only bicycle roadside assistance program. Dump your AAA membership and join Better World! If you join via the Car Talk web site now, you'll get a free Car Talk CD, or a copy of our booklet, 10 Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car without Even Knowing It. Check out Better World Club now at http://www.cartalk.com ******************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ ******************** Miss the puzzler? Losing sleep over it? Add your e-mail to our Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network and we'll personally hand deliver Ray's new puzzler to your inbox every Monday. http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic ******************* Embarrassed by having e-mails from Car Talk in your inbox? Can't say that we blame you. Unsubscribe any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?mailing_list=subscribe
