I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.

Hi everyone. We're back on a Friday. We are. Answering questions. And I think I'm going to start with quite a broad one from a listener called Finton.

And he says, hello, you pair of Elizabethan lutes.

A very simple question for you.

A flute without the F. I love that.

It's good.

That's good.

Very inventive.

He says a very simple question for you.

What is the point of Vauxhall?

Oh, gosh.

Through my extensive research, brackets, 45 seconds on Wikipedia, I've confirmed that

they've essentially been rebadged Opels since the early 80s.

I can understand the 80s and even 90s they did have some individuality to their products.

But for at least the last 25 years, they've just been rebranded Opels. Apart from brand loyalty

for UK buyers, is there any other point in keeping an essentially dead brand alive?

Gosh. Well, of course, now they're not rebranded opals, are they? Because they are part of the...

Well, they are, but opals are now, you know, purses and citrus and things underneath.

Yes, yes. It's sort of shifted again. And whenever we mention Stilantis, we must do the constant ibiza party that is Stilantis.

I mean, this question reminded me of the fact that it's quite nuts that Vauxhall was much more independent in the 50s, 60s, into the 70s, to the extent that it had its own design studio in the UK.

And it had its own test track that There was bloody massive. Milbrook.

It's still there. It's got a high speed bowl. Yeah, Milbrook was Vauxhall, wasn't it? Yeah. It's enormous.

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