Richard Porter aka Sniff Petrol with yet more elite-level car geekery
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How much can you learn about a car from its electric window switches? Much more than you might think, explains Richard Porter.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this bonus episode from The Intercooler. We're launching a brand new product specifically for those of you who love podcasts and want more great stuff to listen to. |
| 0:12.2 | We're calling it The Intercooler Daily Podcast. And yes, we are going to be publishing new audio every single day of the week. Better still, it'll be ad-free. |
| 0:25.1 | That's never been done before. You'll get our regular Monday show completely ad-free, |
| 0:31.1 | plus our new Thursday show called Ask the Intercooler where we answer your questions. |
| 0:37.0 | Throughout the rest of the week, you'll get to |
| 0:39.0 | listen to audio versions of the award-winning articles that we publish on our digital magazine. |
| 0:46.0 | Those articles are written by the best team of automotive writers working anywhere in the world |
| 0:52.0 | today, and they're voiced by real people. Often the authors themselves, |
| 0:56.5 | be it me, Dan Prosser, my co-founder Andrew Frankel, or a top writer like Richard Porter from |
| 1:02.4 | the Smith and Sniff podcast or Steve Sutcliffe to name just a few. That's around two and a half |
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| 1:29.8 | TI subscribers get all this stuff already, plus loads more. This is a new product for those |
| 1:36.2 | who just want to listen. And here's a sample of the sort of thing you'll get to listen to. |
| 1:42.1 | This is Richard Porter with some weapons-grade geekery about |
| 1:46.2 | electric window switches. Enjoy. Geek out. What goes up? You wouldn't believe how much you can |
| 1:54.8 | tell about a car from its electric window switches, if only you knew what to look for. Happily, Richard |
| 2:00.5 | Porter does. That's me, |
| 2:03.0 | talking about myself in the third person. When I worked on the old Top Gear TV show, one of my |
| 2:08.4 | jobs, as the office's self-elected nerd king, was to write briefing notes on the cars we were |
| 2:13.6 | planning to film. These would start with all the basic stats about power, performance and so on, |
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