OTOSOT 34

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

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week Jonny and Richard answer listener questions about cars from the ‘80s, mechanical sympathy, most rave car interior and old cars in TV detective dramas.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter.
0:02.7	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:04.1	And this is on the other side of things,
0:05.8	the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.
0:12.7	Here we are again, answering questions on a Friday.
0:17.0	And I'm going to start with one from a listener called Matt Pointon.
0:23.7	Go on there. I dare you.
0:25.3	Doug DeMuro claims no good cars came from the 80s apart from the very end of the 80s.
0:31.6	How wrong is he?
0:33.8	Totally wrong.
0:35.5	I'm going to say completely wrong.
0:36.8	Yeah, because you only need to look at almost all Mercedes of the early 80s to say that's horseshit.
0:42.4	Yeah, or the Adi Quattro.
0:44.4	Oh, yeah, there we go.
0:45.5	One of my favourite cars of all Alice time.
0:48.5	Or the Perjo 205, one of Europe's most successful and long-running models for mobilising normal people in a fun
0:56.5	but useful way. Golf GTI Mark 2, probably the best golf GTI all round to this day for its time.
1:04.3	And let's be honest, Mark 2 Golf, again, what a brilliantly functional and excellent car that was,
1:10.4	doing its job quietly and brilliantly.
1:12.6	Well, listen, Doug, if you want to contact us with a question for Otisot, you can.
1:17.7	Or just entitle your email, I'm sorry I was talking absolute bobbins.
1:22.6	Yeah.
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