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Puzzler Answer: Car of the Future

RAY: In 1936 an American car company introduced a car that could go 100 miles an hour. Now it certainly wasn't the first vehicle that could go 100 miles an hour, but it may have been this company's first vehicle that could go 100 miles an hour. The question is what is the name of that car, and the hint is you can still buy the same make and model today. I mean not the 1936 version, you can buy the updated version of that very car that was made in 1936.

TOM: Now even though when you gave me this puzzler I got it immediately. I still think it's boh,oh,oh,oh,oh,gus. I mean I don't know how many car makes and models were made in 1936 that are still made today. That would narrow the field a lot.

RAY: Well I'm going to tell you what the answer is, the Buick Century. It could go 100 miles an hour, hence the Century name, and it was a Buick, hence the Buick name.

TOM: Yeah, sure, sure.

RAY: So we have a winner?

TOM: Yeah, the winner is Marina Eppelman from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and I'm going to give her a $25 gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division at the Car Talk section of Cars.com and with that $25 gift certificate she can get a copy of our music collection called, "Car Talk, Car Tunes." America's best disrespectful car songs and there are some beauties in there. By the way this will make an excellent Mother's Day gift assuming that you don't like your mother.

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