I've enjoyed this show so much over the years. Bad moods turned to good so many times. I can't remember feeling so much for the passing of someone I never met. Thank you Tom and Ray!

I'm only 20, and I literally grew up listening to these guys. I kept me smiling and happy through the good and bad of my whole life, I want to seriously say thank you from the bottom my heart. I'm very, very sad to see Tommy go, but I will *ALWAYS*, remember and respect him as long as I live.

Can't imagine grieving so much over someone I've never met.

Thank you. Ray, you and Tommy have been like the nutty uncles that I heard from on a weekly basis for most of the last 30 years. Tips on life, relationships, work and even, occasionally, cars. I can't believe how many perfectly good hours I've wasted during that span of time. And I wouldn't give a single one of them back. I miss you uncle Tommy and God bless you and your family uncle Ray.

I always thought Tom was the sort one. Now after all of these years, I am forced once again to alter a perfectly good reality for one that actually is. The world of course needs more of his laughter.

Listening to the show, laughing and crying.

As is my custom on Saturdays, I head out to the local Farmers Market while listening to Car Talk. I was moved to tears. The show was so bittersweet, yet it provided the best of memories. Condolences to all the Car Talk Family. May the Angels lead Tommy into Paradise and then get advice on repairing the pope mobile.

I was listening to Ray's tribute to Tom on my Sunday drive when I was overcome with the loss and found myself driving the highway in tears. Like any safe motorist who can't get a handle on their emotions, I pulled over to the shoulder, waiting to get a grip. The next thing I knew, a California Highway Patrol officer pulled up behind me and walked up to my window. He asked me to remove my sunglasses and when he saw my tears, he asked why I was crying. I told him and he reached in through my window, put his hand on my shoulder and said, gently, "I share your loss mam." After he drove away, I composed myself, got back on the road and found myself laughing again before the show was over. Thank you Ray, Thank you Tommy. Love, Amber

Ray, thanks to you and Tom for many years of joy and laughter. This show was a great tribute to a very special man. Your friend, Anne, in Connecticut

Thank you for the tribute and the show. You have brought me so much joy over the years. Much love from Kenosha.

I've been listening to Car Talk since I bought my first car. You have been responsible for my neighbors thinking I'm loony listening to my headphones giggling while I mow the lawn. You both have brought joy into my life and I will miss your laugh Tom. Thank You.

I was saddened by Tom's passing. However I was very happy to find this tribute on the Car Talk web site. I laughed when your Mother mangled her lines. I had tears running down my face when Tom laughed at a caller when she said she had a Peugeot. I also enjoyed Tom trying to spell Cathy or Kathy. This was a wonderful and appropriate tribute. I am sure Tom is smiling and laughing right now. I also have to thank you guys for brightening up many a dreary day for me.

Thank you Tom and Ray for all the joy you bring to your listeners. Thank you NPR for keeping the laughter going with the archived shows. RIP Tom and keep them laughing in heaven.

Excellent job on what was surely your most difficult moment in radio. I hope the support and love you are getting from us helps ease a little of the pain.

I have loved this show since I was a little kid and my mother would play it in the car. I listen to it every weekend, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in when the show starts, I laugh all through it. I've gotten a lot of good car advice from the show, but I've gotten a lot more happiness from it. Thank you for all the laughter you've given me over the years, and all the awesome advice you've given out.

I've listened to Car Talk for many years. Especially with my father and occasionally even my mother and sister. From very young in grade school to high school to college to work. And Tom and Ray have never failed to make me smile regardless of how good or bad I was feeling on any given day. Very sorry to hear the news about Tom; I grew up listening to these guys and it feels like one of the constants in my life has been changed irrevocably. Obviously I didn't know him beyond this radio show but given how cheerful, likeable, and hilarious he (and Ray, of course!) was, I think with him gone the world is a bit less brighter now. Rest in Peace, Tom. Thanks for everything.

Ray, thank you! You, and Bugsy, and Bongo-Boy, and the rest of the staff did Tommy PROUD! Would that we could ALL be remembered with such fondness, laughter, and love!

MY brother introduced me to Car Talk saying it was "10% cars, 90% humor" and I've been a faithful listener for many years, not just because of that infectious laugh but because I knew I was laughing under the same sky as my brother a thousand miles away. We're still laughing with both of you Tom and Ray!

If there is a reason to laugh when your heart is breaking this lovingly curated show would be it. I found my way here hoping to catch a segment or two that might stir up memories of afternoons sitting in cars long after we'd reached our destination. When sitting too long seemed the only logical thing to do. We'd wait. We'd listen. And laugh. Knowingly late to wherever it was we were supposed to be. Somehow being just where we needed to be. Thank you for this laughter filled tribute. That laugh. Those moments. They are yours, thank you for sharing them with us and for making them ours too.

A beautiful tribute to Tommy, I feel like I lost a family member this week too. A kind Old Funny Uncle !! Thank you for this show.

That laugh floating over the Yukon River Summer of 2001. Hearing helpful stuff for my vehicles.

my family and i have listened to this show since my kids were little. none of us know or care much about cars, but we love the show. we call them the "funny guys."

Ray did Tom proud. My husband warned me that listening to this episode would require tissues and he was right. Tom and Ray have been a part of our lives for 25+ years. This episode was the the perfect way to remember Tom: his goofy sense of humor, crazy laugh, and delusion that he has some masterful "Kathy" spelling ESP. RIP, Tom. You will be missed

An appropriate send off. Loved hearing the old clips and remembering Tom at his best. Know it's been a difficult week. Thanks for assembling that laugh riot so we can all laugh and cry together.

To say that this episode was the absolute BEST way to bid Tom a fond farewell would absolutely be an understatement. This show grew on me from the first time I listened a couple years ago and I was stunned to hear of the passing of Tom. His laugh got me through my work days and will be sadly missed. Thank you to Ray, NPR and the entire Car Talk family for giving us a treasure to cherish for years to come. Riposta in Pace.

Been looking forward to hearing this all week and it was even better than expected. Here's to some great laughs that will be enjoyed for generations to come. Thank you.

One of the best eulogies I've ever heard; I shed a few tears and had more than a few laughs. Ray, I admire you so much for being able to celebrate Tommy's life in the public forum that brought "my guys" to us every weekend. May Tom have all the angels laughing like we did.

That should have been 'Tom's laughter'. Sorry. Even though I had been hearing their show for years, it was only very recently that I have learned who is Tom and who is Ray.

And my posterior (I wasn't allowed to use a**) has left me. I can only attribute it to laughing it off while listening to your show every week. An era may have ended, but the laughter lives on. An excellent legacy.

What a wonderful tribute. We should all have had so much fun at work.

Thank you to Ray & the Car Talk staff for the best tribute you could ever put together to remember Tom - an hour of his wonderful laughter! Today's tribute was exactly what all the fans of Car Talk needed - not a day for sorrow (though there is plenty of that), but a day to cherish that laugh! My, what a hoot it must have been to be able to make that guy laugh in person! Tom, you will be missed!

What a wonderful tribute to one of my favorite radio personalities ever. I don't think I've ever laughed and cried so much in one hour. When I heard the sad news of Tom's passing earlier this week, I had a feeling there would be a tribute show. It was beautifully done and exactly what I think Tom would have wanted to hear. My thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Car Talk staff, and the Magliozzi family, especially Ray. What a huge loss. But I'm sure Tom is in a better place, bringing that infectious laughter to a paradise where he can live "unencumbered by the thought process." Thank you Tom for so many years of entertainment, and thank you Car Talk for a beautiful tribute to him.

What a wonderful way to pay tribute to Tommy. The first segment alone, where he was laughing so hard while trying to read the story from The Onion about how President Clinton was sending an emergency shipment of vowels to Bosnia, had me in tears.

What a wonderful tribute to Tommy. It's such a great reminder of all the fun your show has been for so many years. Thank you.

So many Saturday listening to you guys with joy.i am from France and emigrated 20 years ago in the usa you were my first show on the radio to listen constantly.thanks you for the great moments.R.I.P tom.

I have been laughing and crying since this episode started. I have been listening to Car Talk since almost its inception. My father passed away a few years ago and I have so many wonderful memories listening to the show on long car trips with him laughing at Tom and Ray as we went down the road. This show has been such a huge part of my life. So many memories attached to this show. Love you guys.

Bittersweet just doesn't cover it. It goes so much deeper. It is hard to understand how a simple radio program; how voices of people I never met could have taken such an important place in our lives, but it did. All good things must end. In their place something even better will most certainly arise.

Thank you Tom and Ray for the great show! I for one would love to have had him as our philosopher king. I listened for the comedy, as I posted in the forums, My dad came to the US as a student from India way back in the 70s. He still has his old Cutlass Supreme, and that car along with the Toyota Camry that's as old as me (25 years!), has meant we've had a lot of trips to "our" mechanic [Raymond Miller] and loved listening to Car Talk. Once we got a "new" 2003 Camry, my mom and I used to joke that we had one and a half cars because the two old ones were always rotating at the mechanic's shop.

Dear CarTalk, Can you please make and market a CD of this show? PLEASE? It makes a great Holiday gift, and I know you can get it out in time. PLEASE????

Never have laughed and cried at the same time until now, thanks for countless hours of entertainment. Tommy is greatly missed, as is the show.

I loved hearing our episode as part of this tribute. My father died last year and he got such a kick out of this recording, which is now about 18 years old. Great to hear the laughter!