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Smith and Sniff

OTOSOT 66

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Top Gear, Road Trips, 5th Gear, The Grand Tour, Leisure, Cars, Automotive, Improv, Comedy

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard answer questions about writing a BL book, amusingly named car dealers, obsessively identifying cars, an American EV swap, replacing a BMW Z4, and car-related wine. 

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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.

0:12.7

Hi there. Welcome to Ottersot, our Friday spin-off show, where we answer listeners questions.

0:19.1

Yeah, that's right, we do. It's a spin-off show, which is why it's called

0:24.4

Ottersock on the other side of things. I'm going to start with a very quick question from a listener

0:30.9

who calls themselves Kay in Hull. They say, hello, you pair of well-greased flanges as richard has a deep knowledge and passion for all

0:40.6

things british leyland as he should does he have a plan to write a b l book well i hope he does

0:46.1

i would buy it i'm really looking forward to seeing richard's metro as well it's extremely tantalizing

0:51.4

seeing it sat there showing a bit of leg in the Den workshop on Retro Powers videos.

0:57.1

Yes, it is.

0:58.9

A video of you two revealing the revitalised beauty is definitely something to look forward to.

1:03.0

It will happen.

1:03.9

Revealing the revitalised beauty.

1:07.4

But to answer the question, the funny one, because I feel like a lot of people have written

1:12.7

really good books about British Leyland and all of the

1:16.1

companies involved in it and I don't know what I could add

1:20.3

unless it was a sitcom you'd write a sitcom about factory workers in

1:25.9

the British Leyland era.

1:29.5

I have had a thought for something similar.

1:31.4

I also had a thought for a novel,

1:33.2

which was sort of, if you could imagine the producers,

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