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After a week of media hyperventilation, its nice to see solid reporting that prioritizes the salient facts.

NBC Nightly News coverage of Mondays Toyota news conference played up the most telling fact...that instead of braking as hard as he could, the evidence suggests Jim Sikes may have been riding the brakes on his Prius...off and on the gas and brakes as much as 250 times during his alleged unintended acceleration incident a week ago.

And, they actually interviewed someone who knows something about cars and drivers...former Car and Driver editor-in-chief Csaba Csere.



ABC has grasped the significance of the 250 applications of the brake pedal, too...CBS makes no mention of it.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

With apologies to Spanky and Our Gang, Saturday will never be the same.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, are ceasing production of new episodes of NPRs Car Talk at the end of September.

As both a car guy and a former radio guy, I can tell you...Car Talk was the best of both, while pretending to be the worst (part of the charm). Damn, Im gonna miss this. The show goes on with material culled from 25 years of archives, but thats gonna get old in about...26 years.

Read the full NPR statement.