Talking Cars 248: Pumping Gas in the Age of Coronavirus

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Main theme: We talk about protecting yourself from COVID-19 when using gas pumps and the credit card keypads at stations, and offer tips about how to accomplish this.

Test wrap-up: 2020 Hyundai Sonata

Audience questions:

• Are the microfiber wipes that you talked about enough to clean up the virus from car interiors?

• Will incentives from automakers and car dealers get better as the economic shakeup goes on?

• Can you explain your noise evaluations and why you don’t use decibels as a measurement?