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Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Jonny and Richard discover something interesting about a beloved British icon. Also in this episode, London to Brighton, running machine mishaps, a very chodey shifter in a Prelude, the fate of Maureen’s Lada, SEAT Ibiza System Porsche, test driving cars, a Volvo EX30 recap, where to put shopping, where Tiff Needell puts shopping, opinions on head-up displays, the Honda Jazz Crosstar, trains on boats, Remy Julienne films for Fiat, the new Honda Motocompacto, and an amazing story from the Nardo test track.

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. I'm Johnny Smith. I'm Johnny Smith, I'm Richard Porter.
0:25.0	And this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. I've just realized the... Well it might have even passed by the time this
0:38.8	recording goes out, the London to Brian. Is it on again?
0:42.1	Wait, hang on, it was the weekend of bonfire night, I think. Is that because, is that because
0:47.8	all the cars that don't get up the final hill, they just pile them into a nearby field you just burn them.
0:54.4	That's the good thing about vintage cars that they they could easily be turned into
0:59.5	matchwoods. The owners are so fed up with being sodden and wet and fed up and cold.
1:06.0	I think it was it was bonfire night weekend because they identified that that was statistically likely to be the dampest weekend of the
1:16.0	autumn and that of course is the whole point of the London to Brian is to be incredibly
1:21.2	damp and miserable. I just don't understand, I just feel so sorry for everybody.
1:29.0	It's like, it's like sitting in a communal shower in a convertible car and then
1:34.4	just switching it to cold and then go do you want to put some more woolen coats on?
1:37.9	Yes, I would. Thank you. Okay.
1:41.6	Oh by the way, do you want to wear a stupid period drama hat? Yes please if that's okay.
1:50.3	No the reason that I so my first inkling that it was that weekend is because we went to
1:57.1	London that weekend to go and stay with some friends and go to a fireworks display
2:02.1	textbook and on the motorway on the way into London we got
2:07.3	into some traffic as we neared the city and we were just crawling along in the next lane there was a Grand Cherokee towing a
2:17.0	vintage car of some sort and my wife just went why would you have that? It's quite a good question.
2:27.0	Why would you have that?
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