People who would not want to be caught listening to intellectual NPR are devoted Car Talk fans. And that includes people who do not know anything about cars or even have a driver's license. They love the Magliozzis' humor, contagious laughter, disrespectful comments and attitude toward pretty much everything. Tom and Ray do not hesitate to call a listener's question idiotic if it is idiotic. Neither do they take themselves seriously.
Nothing is sacred.
Their opinion about Jaguar is that the car never needs to be collision tested. That's because a Jaguar never runs long enough to get into an accident. They like the fact that they do not have to care about sponsors or be politically correct. In their opinion the most burdensome preparation for the radio program is to drag themselves to the studio. The program is a fresh mixture of improvisation and listeners calling in to Car Talk, with a balance between men and women, between different types of car problems and different parts of the country.