I'm Richard Porter, I'm Johnny Smith, and this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars of this week, Johnny's road rage.

As you might know, well in fact you do know because you somebody messaged us on the Smith and Smith website, and I think I got DM'd as well via Instagram about me driving that I was on the road in the taxi doing a long journey yesterday.

And I really enjoyed driving the Tokyo taxi, it's incredibly soft and quiet, albeit with no Bluetooth.

And how long was this journey?

Two and a half hours each way.

It's not insanely long journey, but the point is, I wasn't supposed to be doing it in the taxi, I was actually supposed to be doing it in my new long term Renault Zoe, ZD50.

But weirdly, it didn't charge overnight, and it said there was an earthing problem or an isolation problem that isn't satisfactory.

And so therefore it just wouldn't talk to the charger, so I was a bit confused by that.

And then I was in a fluster because I was leaving really early, and I'd put some trinkets in the car because I was going to see the Allegro and have some important chats about the Allegro project.

And you know when you're like, hell bent on, you've planned out your morning or your event for the day, and I'd already knew that car, I was going to make some Bluetooth phone calls, I've got to catch up on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Couldn't do it because no charge.

So I thought, damn it, I have to take the Tokyo taxi. And actually I realized it wasn't tax, so while I was eating my musely, really quickly, I had to tax it.

I don't know if this sounds a bit first, well, problem me, like I couldn't take one of my cars, so I took one of my other cars.

Bloody free car wasn't working, so I had to take one of the many other cars.

It was a bit like that, I know, it is a bit like that.

But what's weird is it seemed to have inadvertently got paparazzied on the way, although in the morning, because I was left early in the morning, a lot of van drivers tradesmen on the way to jobs.

And it's always the dude in the passenger seat, who seems to have an owl-like head that can turn.

So his body is still fully back on the seat of the passenger seat in the van.

But the head, the head's 180 backwards, because he's doing that whole crane back thing.

And he's either doing Hans' sign language, sometimes positive, sometimes negative to Benny on the scenario.

But it was always great to clock what the passenger van passengers' body language was doing.

But yeah, they seem to appreciate the weirdness of the Tokyo taxi.

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