I'm Johnny Smith. I'm Richard Porter. And this is Smith & Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year, 25 plate. Exactly, yeah. When does that actually happen? March, isn't it?

Yeah, I think so. It's just not important anymore.

No, I know.

And is that because it's not important to anybody or because we're not kids?

I think, well, the consumption of new cars has changed.

I was actually talking about this and many other things to my dad over Christmas.

And I said to him that, of course, when you saw a flash car years ago, a new one driving by,

it felt more special because there was no credit that we know exists, finance, like the way you buy cars now.

So if you saw a hundred grand car go

buy you were like that person's bought a hundred grand car with a hundred grand oh and so there

was that feeling of like that's proper wealth not faux wealth that's actual wealth there was

a higher purchase but i don't think probably it was extended to Rolls Royces and things.

I don't know.

Well I'm sure you, yeah, you could probably buy them through a buzzness venture and somehow

if you were the MD and you just suddenly went, I have to have a Bentley TurboR.

Yeah.

I just have to. But you're right. I think mostly if you saw a Bentley TurboR. Yeah. I just have to.

But you're right.

I think mostly if you saw a Bentley TurboR that had been bought for cash money, I would assume.

That was actual wealth.

So now wealth, I'm doing inverted commas thing in the air.

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