America's Car Show
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America's Car Show is a weekly syndicated American call-in radio program focusing on cars and the automotive industry. Callers call in with their difficult car problems, and host Tom Torbjornsen attempts to lead callers through diagnosis and gives suggestions on how to repair their vehicles. Torbjornsen frequently emphasizes that automotive technology has progressed rapidly and because most cars now have built-in computer diagnostic systems, he warns his listeners to not use "do it yourself" remedies and instead have the car taken to a professional, using the advice and diagnosis from his answer to the caller's question as a starting point.
The show also has interviews with guests in the automotive and related industries. Examples of previous guests in related industries include car sound systems, radar detectors, GPS, electronics, and biodiesel.
America's Car Show is based in Buffalo, New York, but it has changed flagship stations frequently. For many years, WBEN was the station's flagship. In 2004, however, WBUF went to a hot talk format and convinced Torbjornsen to join WBUF. Six months later, WBUF dumped the talk format and the show was displaced to WECK. Dissatisfied with being placed on an adult standards station, Torbjornsen left CBS Radio's cluster and joined WHLD, which had adopted a progressive talk radio format. This, however, was also short-lived, as when WHLD ran out of money, the talk format was dropped and the show was once again without a flagship. The current flagship is WWKB.
Torbjornsen also writes a weekly column (entitled "Tom's Corner") covering similar topics to the radio show; he also hosts two weekly segments on WIVB-TV. He currently resides in Chautauqua County, and had a DWI arrest in late 2004, which took the show off the air for several months.
