Car Talk...and haiku*? Admittedly, it's an unlikely combination.

But after Brian Steblen wrote us with some stunning examples of automotive haiku, we were sold — and promptly awoke from our slumber at Car Talk Plaza, and crafted a few more examples of this budding new genre.

We thought you'd enjoy reading them.

And should a profound haiku involving a rusted muffler, check-engine light, or a blown head gasket suddenly come over you, be sure to send it our way!

Yours in Japanese-automotive verse,

Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers

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*Just to remind you, haiku is a classic Japanese poetry form that has three lines: five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second and five in the third. Got it?