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Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard discuss a needlessly specific BMW specialist. Also in this, the 400th episode of Smith and Sniff (but also, not), who’s got the Lotus Evora, simple cars, follow-up on a listener’s crash story, bad news about Eagle, cars v planes, an encounter in Five Guys, the new BMW i3 and various Ken Lees.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Johnny Smith. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Richard Porter. |
| 0:03.5 | And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. |
| 0:10.5 | This is technically not our 400th episode, but it is also officially our 400th episode. |
| 0:17.7 | Is it? |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.1 | Bloody hell. |
| 0:19.9 | But at the same time, it's our 401 first because we released a pilot episode that was like |
| 0:25.2 | episode zero. |
| 0:26.3 | So with like the asswits that we are, we sort of messed it up a bit. |
| 0:30.8 | We did a prototype. |
| 0:32.0 | We did a pre-prod. |
| 0:33.8 | Yes. |
| 0:34.3 | Of the production spec podcast, this is episode 400. Oh my gosh, Rich, 400. That's really shocked me. |
| 0:41.9 | I forgot to tell you before we started recording because it only occurred to me the other day when I was uploading the last one, which was 399. |
| 0:48.9 | Oh, right. 400. So what are we if we're a car? Are we an LS 400 Lexus? Are we a Ferrari with a slack gear box? What are we? Yeah, and a saggy ass because the self-leveling's gone on the bong. Yes. Or some of those later Jag F-types were badged 400. Oh, they were? Yeah, that's true, they were. |
| 1:11.5 | Or, Rover 400, Volvo 400 series. |
| 1:14.4 | Oh, Volvo 400 was a very sensible looking car, wasn't it? |
| 1:17.9 | Yes. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah, the 440, what a sensible car. |
| 1:21.7 | We're not made in the Netherlands, so that probably discounts that. |
| 1:25.2 | Okay. |
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