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Smith and Sniff

OTOSOT 86

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

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In their usual Friday spin-off show, Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about best aftermarket pipes sound, concept car tyres, track car project suggestions, good car details in films and TV shows, and the choady shifter champion. 

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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.

0:13.1

Hello again, welcome to our spin-off show, which we answer listeners' questions.

0:17.8

Hi.

0:18.3

Hi. If I may, I'm going to kick off with this one, which comes in from Australia.

0:25.3

It says, hello, you pair of highly polished strumpets.

0:30.5

Interesting.

0:32.6

Regards your ZDOS 6 and Welsh rock, he's put rock in inverted commas.

0:36.8

This seems to have become a thing now when referring to the band feeder. You have to put rock in inverted. I don't know why. Anyway, this listen is called Matt, by the way. Sorry. Hi, Matt. Matt says, I was reminded of an MX3 that lives in my parts. I believe using a variance of the same K-series v6 I think it is isn't it's all the same

0:57.4

family because they were what 2 litre in the in the in the in the x3 in the x3 yeah yeah um he says

1:06.3

he said body own in x3 in the well oh yeah used to see them around? I feel like they were always red. And you did see them around, but then I guess they're probably rotter. Haven't they got quite small eyes? They have got small eyes, yes. You know, someone that's got a large head and they haven't slept so well. Yes. Yes. And they've been out on

1:27.9

the lash the night before. It's go, oh my God. Does your MX3 been out? Yeah, it has. Yeah. I didn't get much sleep last night. Yeah. So Matt says, I regularly see this guy spanking the little coupe away from lights. And it sounds glorious. The kind of noise pollution my wife complains about, but I secretly admire.

1:47.0

I think he's got equal length headers on it.

1:53.5

So like a Mercedes V12 given the same treatment to sound like an a lacy era Ferrari, this little Mazda sounds the business.

1:57.2

Well, Matt's question is, what's the best take off the glasses and let down the hair transformation with aftermarket pipes on a car?

2:08.0

I love that analogy.

2:09.2

That's brilliant.

2:10.1

Well, there's an immediate answer for me on this one.

2:14.0

Okay.

2:14.7

And it is, perhaps unexpectedly, Toyota Century. Oh. Because there's a guy, I think he's in

2:21.0

New Zealand who's taken a V12 century. Yeah. And I don't know what he's done, I think it is an equal

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