Popemobiles and the Cybertruck

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

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has fallen down a Papal wormhole and Richard has driven a controversial Tesla. Also in this episode, favourite numbers, the Mercedes Vision V, a non-horrible BMW, hotel toasters, the Goodwood ghost train siren, strumming, the Autopia ride at Disneyland, panama cam, jammed-on horn stories, and two weeks with an Infiniti QX80.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:02.4	I'm Richard Porter.
0:03.6	And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:12.8	Pope Francis no longer with us.
0:18.1	The, it sent me down this huge pope spec car hole the other day right um and i i mean look
0:30.4	i don't take a great deal of notice about the pope um but i know that there's been many, many
0:37.6	Popemobiles over the Hears.
0:40.7	Yes.
0:41.1	But did you know that Pope Francis
0:43.8	was the one that was asking Mercedes
0:49.4	for an electric popemobile for quite some time?
0:54.5	I did not know that.
0:55.7	He really wanted an EV potemobile.
0:59.7	And they obliged.
1:03.0	They were like, yeah.
1:04.3	And so at the back end of last year, again, I did not know this.
1:07.2	At the back end of last year, they gave him a poehmer bill. I'm just going to
1:12.8	bring up the details because it was, it was more interesting that I was expecting. So we all know
1:20.6	that the popes had, you know, he's been gifted Lamborghinis and Ferraris and things. And I think Pope Francis usually signs them and then auctions them off.
1:31.3	Sorry, auctions, auctions them off.
1:34.2	Haven't seen any of them on piston heads yet, but you never know.
1:38.6	They might come off.
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