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Smith and Sniff

Polestar 3 and the myth of fast estates

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has been to see the Polestar 3 and Richard thinks no one will buy the M3 Touring. Also in this episode, hitting the vitamin C supplements, NASCAR driver Richard Pictures, a German Liam Neeson disguised as a Swede, a big American locomotive having a baby, the urge to drive into an arrester bed, how to save F1 money on safety features, the under-rated Jaguar I-Pace, Gerry McGovern doubling for Brian May, seeing Tesla drivers’ trousers, cat friendly holidays, taking a tortoise to an Airbnb, a trip to the Trafford Centre, mirroring someone’s accent, the chance to put a back seat in a 911 GT3 Touring, accidentally mis-naming the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo, thoughts on the VW Arteon Shooting Brake PHEV, 20 years since the start of ’new’ Top Gear, and Jonny’s doing a school careers talk.

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0:00.0

I'm Johnny Smith, and I'm Richard Porter.

0:03.9

This is Smith & Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

0:10.0

I find a little bit gravely today, although not that bad now that I've just chugged down

0:19.0

an effervescent vitamin C, which is always, it's my sort of journalist survival kit when

0:25.0

you've burning them midnight oil.

0:26.4

We're going to say, if you've gone to the barocca, is this mean that things are?

0:30.1

Yeah, it's your instant stage one tune, isn't it?

0:32.8

It's just sort of power poor, um, added to fuel-editive, it just, it just clears things up.

0:38.8

Yeah, red X for your gut.

0:40.3

It's red X, it's red X, it's exactly what it is.

0:44.5

Yeah, I feel a little bit better.

0:46.1

Does it do what it's claimed to do though?

0:48.2

I'm sure there's some benefits to it, of course, but I remember years ago that a friend of mine

0:54.6

used to share a flat with a nurse called Fran and she was a bit crackers for a lot of reasons.

1:00.8

She was the one who, another friend of ours, taught her to drive, she was learning to drive,

1:04.6

she really needed to learn to drive because it'd be easier for her to get to work.

1:09.3

And so she got a car already but couldn't drive it and a mate of ours took her out.

1:14.6

Fran was Welsh.

1:15.8

Yeah, this is only one of it because I'm going to do the accident in a minute,

1:18.7

that my mate Dave went turn here and she immediately turned and went over the pavement.

1:25.9

Oh, wow.

1:27.4

And he went, whoa, stop, what the hell are you doing?

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