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NEW YORK (AP) — The chatty mechanics on NPR’s “Car Talk” are pulling in to the garage.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi said Friday they will stop making new episodes of their comic auto advice show at the end of September, 25 years after “Car Talk” began in Boston. The show airs every Saturday morning and is National Public Radio’s most popular program.

Older brother Tom is 74 years old and the brothers say it’s time to stop and smell the cappuccino.

“Car Talk” isn’t disappearing, however. NPR says repurposed episodes will continue to air every week with material culled from the show’s archives.

I love listening to these guys on my way to work on Saturdays. I know absolutely nothing about cars, so it was nice to occasionally learn something. I didn’t realize they were so old!

My sister and I are the only people ever who don’t like Car Talk, and for that I will always feel a bit guilty. Raucous! Laughing at their own jokes! Talking about cars, and no one wants to listen to talk about cars! I can’t explain it.

Posting mostly for J, who will be appropriately disappointed.