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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

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In their end of the week Q&A show, Jonny and Richard answer questions about bringing back 1990s rallying, 1960s cars falling in value, the new Microlino, and which all-terrain ice cream van?

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0:00.0

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0:45.0

Hello again.

0:46.3

Hi.

0:46.8

Question answering time.

0:48.6

And I think I'm going to start, if I may, with one from a listener called Jack, who says,

0:57.3

hypothetical project for you. A wealthy businessman has sought you out as the perfect pair to

1:03.0

revive what he feels is the ultimate motorsports, WRC. He's right. Hypothetical businessman.

1:09.6

Yes. He's particularly passionate about 90s rallying.

1:14.3

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is with an essentially unlimited budget to bring the WRC back to its 90s heyday.

1:23.3

Which manufacturers would you approach to get involved? They can be new or old. And which car from their range would you like to get involved they can be new or old and which car from

1:28.7

their range would you like to see compete gosh now i assume jack means just like cars and manufacturers

1:37.8

now but to make rallying as good as it was in the 90s well rather than bringing back a defunct manufacturer. Well, the alternative way we're looking at this is to recreate 90s WRC. So you've got your impractors and your evos in there. Yes. Maybe a focus. But you could chuck in other 90s manufacturers. So you could be really stupid and go, yeah do you know what i want i want a rover 75

2:01.0

rc but i i don't i mean i don't know which way to go with this one i suppose well jazz up

2:08.7

the wrc now yeah you want to revive it so you want more eyes on it i suppose yeah so could, I mean, because I was thinking, well, hang on, Lancia still exists, doesn't it?

2:23.5

Yeah.

2:24.4

But I don't know what they...

2:25.5

Trying to stage a comeback.

2:26.8

Yeah.

2:27.2

So, I mean, I can't remember the exact cars that are on sale right now with Lancia, but logic to me would say the Integrali was still dominating in the early 90s,

2:40.8

wasn't it?

2:42.0

Yeah.

2:42.1

Pre-impreza, so pre-Re, really the legacy RS had done much serious WRC work.

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