So, I'm guessing that this news is pretty upsetting to some empeggers.

I listen pretty often, so it'll be sad to not have these guys on the air anymore.

I have every episode of Car Talk since February, 2002, saved in MP3 format on my computer...

tanstaafl.

Yes, but as a starving student in 1978, the not-yet syndicated Car Talk on BUR filled a serious void in the transportation technology world. Tom and Ray might puzzle over ill-behaved Volvo fuel injectors for half the show. Then came NPR (and ECUs), and half the show could be consumed by marital discord - "My husband wants a Miata but where do we put the toddler???"

Tom and Ray, though, deserve a nice retirement. But they won't really retire. Lest anyone wonder, an old acquaintance of mine (who went to high school with them in Cambridge) reported with exasperation "Enough! Those two are like that ALL THE TIME! It never stops!"

RIP Tom Magliozzi

I was so sad to hear about that. My wife almost cried, having grown up listening to it with her dad.

It was especially sad to hear that Tom was suffering from Alzheimer's. The retirement makes a lot more sense now, but I'm sorry to hear he was dealing with that.

If it is of any use or solace, I have every Car Talk episode from February, 2002 through November 1, 2014, saved as mp3 files, about 16 GB, they would fit on three DVDs.

tanstaafl.