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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

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has discovered some strangely-named Transformers. Also in this episode, Bill Withers CVT and bite point, the return of Richard’s Defender, in praise of right-hand-side indicator stalks, an Imran Khan lorry, a new Goodwood lap record, wonky exhausts on old 5 Series’, the egomania of having trainers with your own name on them, and two more picks from the Pistonheads auctions.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:02.3	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.
0:12.6	There's been a lot of Bill Withers kicking about lately.
0:16.9	And it's brought to my attention that there's two ways of looking at Bill Withers
0:24.0	automotively, and that is the Bill Withers CVT.
0:30.2	Yes.
0:31.6	Or I've got a counter to this.
0:34.2	But let's talk about the Bill Withers' CVT first of all. Now, I can't claim this, but let's talk about the, let's talk about the Bill Withers CVT first of all.
0:38.2	Now, I can't claim this, but it makes absolutely sense.
0:41.7	A listener called Ash Gooders, he actually, he did send us this letter and he said,
0:46.8	you know that really good song, Lovely Day by Bill Withers, which I do sing a lot and I listen
0:51.5	to it a lot, call me a sad dad, but I do when I'm making my morning coffee.
0:57.7	At the end of the track, he obviously holds that impressively long note.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:01.7	But in Ash's head, all he could hear was a CVT box
1:05.4	and the concept of CVT Bill Weather is just...
1:09.0	So the song is Meathers, just... Ah...
1:12.6	So the song is still accelerating,
1:15.0	but Bill is holding constant revs.
1:17.2	Bill is holding constant revs,
1:19.4	even though he's basically overtaking on an uphill,
	...

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