Smith and Sniff

Jonny is busy so Richard invites an old colleague to host the podcast with him. Topics discussed include James’s new Alfa, car makes you’ve never owned, why young people like 80s and 90s cars, car scatter, James’s mythical TV formats including Antiques Bonfire and Knick Knack Have A Whack, being a car columnist, why ‘sporty Vauxhall’ is a funny phrase, what prompted James to ...

In this week’s On The Other Side Of Things question answering show, Jonny and Richard tackle listeners’ messages about the Matchbox movie and good car chase films, road trips in cars whose names match the destination, and carryover rear lights.

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Jonny and Richard remember the swan of windscreen wipers. Also in this episode, stealth wealth cars of Geneva, a mannish trip to Germany, the time one of the Top Gear team got trapped on a submarine, the strange wiper policies of the VW Scirocco, driving a classic S-Class, listeners’ messages about the weird GM credit card, police cars and the Dutch, the return of the Smith a...

In this week’s On The Other Side Of Things Q&A show, Jonny and Richard attempt to answer listeners’ messages about quirky car views, vigilante badge removal, and people who don’t put ‘the’ ahead of car names.

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Jonny and Richard have a belated chat about all the new cars at the Paris motor show including the new 2 CV, Peugeot RCZ and E-T16, Opel STX, Fiat Multiplay and Alfa Cuorerosso concepts, and explain why show cars are usually a sham. Also in this episode, famous car makes teetering on the brink, the Jag Type 01 revealed at last, the return of a really small Smart, a short revi...