Herr Fünf
3/23/202659 min
Jonny and Richard discuss a needlessly specific BMW specialist. Also in this, the 400th episode of Smith and Sniff (but also, not), who’s got the Lotus Evora, simple cars, follow-up on a listener’s crash story, bad news about Eagle, cars v planes, an encounter in Five Guys, the new BMW i3 and various Ken Lees.
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First 90 secondsJonny Smith· Host0:00
[upbeat music] I'm Johnny Smith.
Richard Porter· Host0:02
I'm Rich Porter.
Jonny Smith· Host0:03
And this is Smith & Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
Richard Porter· Host0:08
This is technically not our 400th episode, but it is also officially our 400th episode.
Jonny Smith· Host0:17
Is it?
Richard Porter· Host0:18
Yeah.
Jonny Smith· Host0:19
Bloody hell.
Richard Porter· Host0:19
But at the same time, it's our 401st because we released a pilot episode that was like episode zero, so it, it, with like the asswits that we are, we sort of messed it up a bit.
Jonny Smith· Host0:30
We did a prototype. We did a, a, we did a pre-prod.
Richard Porter· Host0:33
Yes, of the production spec podcast. This is episode 400.
Jonny Smith· Host0:38
Oh my gosh, Rich, 400. Uh, that's really shocked me.
Richard Porter· Host0:41
Mm. I forgot to tell you before we started recording because I, it was, it was, it only occurred to me the other day when I was uploading the last one, which was 399. I said, "Oh, right."
Jonny Smith· Host0:51
400. So what are we if we're a car? Are we an LS 400 Lexus? Are we a Ferrari with a slack gearbox? What are we?
Richard Porter· Host0:59
Uh, yeah, and a, and a saggy ass because the self-leveling's gone on the bonk.
Jonny Smith· Host1:03
Yes.
Richard Porter· Host1:04
Or, uh, some of those later Jag F types were badged 400.
Jonny Smith· Host1:08
Oh, they were.
Richard Porter· Host1:09
And they were rather good.
Jonny Smith· Host1:09
Yeah, that's true.
Richard Porter· Host1:10
Mm.
Jonny Smith· Host1:10
They were.
Richard Porter· Host1:11
Or Rover 400, Volvo 400 series.
Jonny Smith· Host1:14
Oh, Volvo 400 was a very sensible looking car, wasn't it? The- Yes. Yeah.
Richard Porter· Host1:19
Yes.
Jonny Smith· Host1:19
The 440, what a sensible car.
Richard Porter· Host1:21
We're not made in the Netherlands, so that probably discounts that.
Jonny Smith· Host1:25
Okay.
Richard Porter· Host1:25
With some of the, um... Mm, which Lotus? The Evora, was it? Had a