Good News Garage is a innovative car charity that has captured national media attention because of its success in moving people from welfare to work. The "snowball effect" of publicity began with a piece on Vermont Public Radio in March 1998, which was picked up by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" in April. The following are just a few of the outlets that have featured GNG – from NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and CBS Evening News with Dan Rather to the Smithsonian magazine.

• Today Show, April 2008
• People Magazine, February 2008
• Rutland Herald, September 2007
• Sam’s Good News, September 2007
• Rutland Herald, July 2007
• Burlington Free Press.com, February 2007
• CommonWealth, Winter 2006
• Boston Globe, December 2006
• USA Today, December 2006
• Vermont State Employee Credit Union, July 2005
• The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, May 2005
• Mountain Echo, January 2005
• Annie E. Casey Foundation, Winter 2005
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 2002
• Yankee Magazine, December 2000
• Family Circle Magazine, June 22, 1999
• Vermont Life Magazine, Summer 1999
• Emerge Magazine, April 1999
• Hope Magazine, Spring 1999
• Smithsonian Magazine, February 1999
• Communities and Banking Quarterly, published by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fall 1998
• The New England Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 1998
• The Boston Globe, December 1998
• The Lutheran, April 1998

Good News Garage is featured on the Car Talk website, which includes an interview with Jon and Hal.

The GNG was a recipient of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-Profit Management.

GNG was cited by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in its Best Practice report for 1998 and 1999. In July 2000 GNG was honored as one of HUD's Best of the Best non-profit agencies in the U.S.