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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

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about models you’d only buy brand new, which car to turn into a boat for an apocalyptic future, biggest car-related prank, and best car for smuggling people across Berlin during the Cold War.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter. 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.
0:12.8	Hi there, welcome to another Friday spin-off, answering your questions.
0:18.4	I'm going to start with one from a listener called Rufus.
0:23.0	And Shaka Khan or not? No, just on his own at this point. No, no, she's busy. Okay. Or dead? Is she dead? She's dead?
0:31.1	Busy slash dead. I don't think she's dead. That's not a question.
0:38.8	It's not, but it's going to bother me.
0:40.6	Yeah, me too.
0:41.4	I need to know.
0:42.0	No, she's still alive.
0:42.8	Thank God for that.
0:43.5	Anyway, Rufus has temporarily stopped doing that and sent us a question, which
0:49.8	starts with, hello, you pair of lug nuts.
0:53.4	I know you both enjoy a secondhand car.
0:55.6	And with the increasing regulations on new cars, the idea of owning something new is less
1:00.1	appealing to me than ever.
1:01.7	My question is, are there any cars that you would only own brand new?
1:06.8	Not cars that you wouldn't buy at all, but something that is firsthand or not at all.
1:11.7	That's a good conundrum, Rufus.
1:15.4	A car that you'd only own brand new, not cars that you wouldn't buy at all.
1:22.6	I mean, I've long thought that ideally a hot hatchback is best if you're the first owner because you can never quite be sure what Dick Heddery has happened in a hot hatchback.
1:37.7	Yeah.
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