Beckham's Prelude

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Cars, 5th Gear, Leisure, Road Trips, Automotive, Comedy, Top Gear, Improv, The Grand Tour

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Britain’s most popular car podcast, the new Vauxhall Frontera, the madness of Nic Cage films, David Beckham’s interesting first car, a crazy new motorbike engine, Wet Leg’s ambitious road trip plans, an update on Richard’s MG Metro Turbo, and what does Lorde drive?

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:02.3	I'm Richard Porter.
0:03.6	And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:12.8	Hello everyone.
0:13.9	Welcome to Anne Room at the Motorist near Leet, which is where we are the morning after our live show.
0:21.4	It's a sweet, sweet location.
0:23.2	It's a sweet location.
0:24.2	I'm facing the window and I'm looking out over some fields.
0:27.2	And it's really lovely.
0:30.6	We're in the, are we in the Flangio suite?
0:33.1	No, we are in the Indianapolis room.
0:36.0	I have these meeting rooms upstairs and they're all named after race tracks and then
0:39.3	decorated accordingly.
0:40.9	So this one has a big old...
0:43.8	Where's that?
0:44.5	Oh, even before these 60s.
0:46.2	Sixths.
0:46.5	A sort of track diagram of Indianapolis.
0:50.2	And then it's just sort of posters and things.
0:51.9	There's a picture of someone kissing the bricks.
0:53.8	I don't know who that is I don't recognise them
0:55.5	Not a euphemism
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