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Smith and Sniff

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Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From their recent live show in Bristol, Jonny and Richard answer audience questions about hire cars, push-me-pull-you limos, a new car for BRIXMIS, hotel stories, irritating car faults, things found in barn find cars, Beat songs and cars for a Miami Vice re-make. 

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0:00.0

I'm Johnny Smith.

0:02.0

I'm Richard Porter.

0:03.1

And this is on the other side of things in which we answer the questions from the audience who are live in Bristol.

0:25.9

Thank you. Dear listener at home,

0:29.8

I cannot tell you the journey we have been on to get here.

0:33.9

One day, books will be written about it.

0:37.1

But in the meantime, let's take some questions from the audience.

0:37.8

I'm going to, we're in the round here in Bristol, so I'm south facing at the moment. I'm making that up, but let's say

0:41.6

it's a fact. Anyone over here got a question for us? Yes, a chap over here. Now, I say with

0:47.1

trepidation. Again, for the last at home, some context. We are on wired microphones.

0:51.6

Watch the wine. Already my wired microphone has got trapped on some other things on the stage, including a Talbot, Alpine and Salara Haines Manual.

1:02.0

I'm coming. Oh, you, sir, coming to me. Thank you.

1:06.0

Thank you. Do either of you have a particularly good rental car story, either an unexpected upgrade

1:13.4

or something that you did with a rental car that's particularly notable? I'm thinking of a,

1:22.3

I remember reading about a guy who got a whole bunch of them to fly out to Bergamo outside Milan and they all

1:30.6

got Fiat 500s and they did the Stelvio Pass rather than bothered driving through Europe. Have you

1:35.5

ever done anything like that? Yes. I'll try and rattle through. There's three stories. First one had an idea on, I think it was Max Power.

1:47.6

Let's go mental.

1:48.5

It's only a rental.

1:50.1

And I'm, I borrowed a hired a BMW, I would have been a 328 CI, E46 brand new at the time.

2:01.5

Yeah.

2:02.4

And I took it to a drift what you brung event.

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