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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

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about daft road trips, favourite die cast models, optional extra envy, and songs that remind you of car noises, or vice versa.

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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, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.
0:12.9	Welcome to the half-hour version of the hour version, which involves questions and then us answering them.
0:19.4	Yes, that's right.
0:20.8	Yeah. Hello at smith-sniff. Yes, that's right. Yeah.
0:21.2	Hello at smith and sniff.com is the email address for your questions.
0:26.3	Mark your email, Otisot.
0:27.9	It helps us to find questions.
0:30.3	It does.
0:30.7	As opposed to normal emails.
0:31.7	I'm going to just...
0:32.4	All right.
0:32.6	Housekeeping over.
0:33.5	I'm immediately going to just kick it into kick down and just let the auto scream. I'm going straight to this email, this letter that we had from a chap called Sean Rashwell, and he sent it a while ago a couple of months ago. But that's not a lot for us. And Otisot, 2,400 miles across the USA in a $1,500 Mercedes 300D. That's the title. Good morning, you pair of indignant flutes. Been listening for a good while, but I've never written in. Question, what is the stupidest car and road trip combination you've ever taken? We'll come back to that question because he's sort
1:12.9	of given us his. I recently purchased a cheap in an italics and bold. 1984 Mercedes 300D, W123. Partly inspired
1:24.0	by James May's W123 230 injection in injection in the top gear bots one, a special.
1:30.5	It appears to be the same colour as May's car as well, thistle green metallic.
1:33.7	One of the best greens that Merck came in, actually.
1:36.6	A few things have rung true.
1:38.3	Mine had a five-speed gear knob on it, despite having a four-speed gearbox.
1:42.7	Same thing happened to James May.
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