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This curious bit of info came to us via our tipline, and may merit the curious (or the foolish) to check it out: "Volkswagen made a car so bad, that Jennifer Boswell wants to take it out to a field and charge a dollar swing. Fortunately, NPR's famous Car Talk radio Tapert* [sic] brothers convinced Jennifer on air not to kill her car, but instead give away her green 2001 beetle to the most deserving stranger."
So what's the plan? Well, she's figured "where better to give a car away then right in front of the company who made it? So [today] from noon until 4pm Jennifer will be in front of the Volkswagen dealership on Van Nuys Blvd. in Van Nuys doing the only thing she can do with a clear conscience...taking a lemon and giving away lemonade."
Expect encouraged cries of: "EAT IT" and "SHAME ON YOU" and "WE REALLY DON'T LIKE YOU" and "NEVER BUY A VOLKSWAGEN" aimed at the dealers. The car "totally runs." If you want to buy what Boswell says is a lemon, just "write a page about why you are the most deserving stranger." Strange, indeed!
Photo of a 2001 VW Bug (not Jennifer's!) by The Pug Father via Flickr
*"The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers." [Wikipedia]
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It's TAPPET brothers. Please have some understanding of automotive nomenclature if you're going to write about cars. Do you think their first names are really Click and Clack??
guynoir, are you addressing the person who sent us that email?
Out of curiosity, how does their typo of the show hosts' name relate to automotive nomenclature? Also, what makes you think this person believes their show nicknames are their real names?
If you are addressing us, I suppose I ought to ask you to please have some understanding of how the used of quotation marks indicate quoted material if you're going to make a comment.
Um, Lindsay, I'm not sure what your last paragraph in your comment even means.
But the misspelling of Tappet brothers jumped out at me too when I read the article, and a quick google search leads to the correct spelling if anyone on the LAist staff chose to copy edit.