DRIVE SMALL.(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 02-SEP-02

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In an unusual spurt of semi-seriousness, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. Click and Clack), the wisecracking brothers and M.I.T.-educated auto mechanics who are the hosts of the radio show "Car Talk," decided recently to launch a political crusade of sorts, against sport-utility vehicles. "Car Talk," which airs on National Public Radio but is owned and produced by the Magliozzis, provides an impressive pulpit. It is the most popular entertainment show on public radio, heard, on average, by 3.7 million listeners around the country each weekend. "We're hoping to have an effect on the market," one of the brothers (it was impossible to distinguish which) said over the phone last week, in a rare tandem interview....

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