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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

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about inconvenient car purchases, OEM purism, and awkward car conversations with medical professionals. 

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0:00.0

I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff

0:06.4

spin-off in which we answer your questions. Your questions answered. Once again, on a Friday.

0:17.7

Shall I start? Go on, I dare you. I'm going to start with this one, which is confusing because the name that pops up attached to the email is not the name that the listener has signed off with.

0:30.5

So, let's go with the sign off name.

0:37.1

This is from a listener called George.

0:39.5

Okay, George.

0:40.6

And George says, it was Sunday night last night, pre 8pm.

0:45.9

I was already in bed, braced for another night of broken sleep with a small baby in the house.

0:51.3

Rather than being smart and getting an early night, I instead researched K-trucks.

0:56.4

Of course. Of course. That's totally normal. Of course. We've all been there. More specifically,

1:02.5

the Daihatsu Hijayet, which Johnny did a video on not so long ago. Oh yeah. I did the jumbo.

1:08.1

I can't. Four by four. Yeah. I can't stop dreaming of one, but it would potentially

1:13.7

be one of the most inconvenient vehicles I could buy in my current stage of life. Only two seats,

1:19.7

never go off road and use motorways regularly. No, just don't. Please don't. Maybe the UK importer could extend the single cab

1:29.4

and fit an extremely safe child seat cage in the load bed,

1:33.0

so the three of us can traverse the country in the harmony of a sub-700-c3-cylinder engine.

1:38.8

Unfortunately, if I did buy the truck, I would surely be divorced.

1:42.2

So my question is, what is the most inconvenient

1:45.5

car purchase you've ever had? One that's detrimental to how you live your life.

1:51.9

Feel free to extend this out to friends slash colleagues if there are any good ones.

1:55.7

Well, I, I, in the last three years since becoming a single parent, I've definitely done stupid things where

2:02.8

I've bought several two-seat cars when I know I've got two children. And it is idiotic. There's

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