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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

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard get sidetracked by an Iberian singing legend’s cars (and clothes). Also in this episode, departure angles, trying to carry too much to the car in one go, Max Verstappen’s mountain bike secret, another form of trackwork, Caterham and HORSE, the ghost of Prince in an electric Renault, combine harvester problems, suddenly wanting a Volvo 240, and looking forward to the Pistonheads Annual Service.

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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.
0:12.9	Hey, hey, hey.
0:14.2	Hey.
0:15.3	Guys, hey.
0:16.8	Do you remember ages ago, we went through a phase of talking about bob tailing everything?
0:22.7	Or I don't know why we might have gone down a internet research wormhole of people bob tailing vehicles that inappropriately.
0:32.6	Well, I always associated bob tailing with Land's and particularly like Discovery, original discoveries.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:38.8	Yeah. Discovery ones.
0:40.0	Not the most overhanging car in the first place, not compared to Discovery 2, for example, but still people absolutely slice them back so there's no rear overhacked, don't they?
0:49.7	For extreme off-roading.
0:52.5	Yes.
0:53.2	What's the term?
0:54.1	It's the,
0:54.7	not the incline and the,
0:57.3	what,
0:58.0	the approach angle and departure angle, is,
1:01.2	is,
1:01.5	is your critical.
1:03.5	What's your favourite departure ankle
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