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On the Car Talk retirement announcement:

In June I drove my 1982 Renault Le Car to that mythical "farm in the country" where it can roam free. With all the other free French cars. Actually it wasn't quite free. I got a few bucks for the mountain of Franco-spares that went with the car. Click and Clack named the Le Car the sixth worst car of the millennium. Ours lasted almost as long as they did, and cost far less than our local NPR station pays per year for Car Talk programming. If it was truly the sixth worst car ever, that just shows how good even bad cars are. Tom and Ray did a bit on the show once about French car ownership...

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