Nevertheless, the two enjoyed the experience and were invited in 1977 to be part of a panel of automotive experts on Boston's National Public Radio affiliate WBUR-FM.

[7] In January 1987, Susan Stamberg of Weekend Edition on NPR asked the two brothers to contribute weekly to her program.

In 1992, Tom and Ray won a Peabody Award for Car Talk for "distinguished achievement and meritorious public service".

On June 8, 2012, it was announced that Car Talk would stop producing new episodes in September 2012, though NPR would continue airing reruns of the show.

[17] Producer Doug Berman said that Tom and Ray "changed public broadcasting forever" because the brothers "showed that real people are far more interesting than canned radio announcers.

[20] In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click and Clack Talk Cars which, like the radio show, mixed serious advice with humor.

[22] The brothers also appeared in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch in an episode called "Driving Mr. Goodman" which aired on May 3, 2002.

[24] In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

[26] Ray did radio and TV ads for eBay Motors in 2022 and voiced the Father of the Bride in the animated short film The Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving in 2023.