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Richard Porter· Host0:00

I'm Richard Porter, and this is On the Other Side of Things, the Smith & Sniff spin-off in which for this week, it's just me answering your questions. [upbeat music] Yes, uh, I'm on my own this week. Johnny is very busy filming for The Late Break Show or forming a plan to leave his Dodge Charger on Mallorca or something. So I'm afraid it's just me. And since we get a few questions in about Top Gear or the Grand Tour, I thought I'll just take a little whiz through some of those since that's sort of my department while Johnny's not here. Gonna start with one from a listener called Will, who says, "Hello, you wonderful flutes. While watching a classic rerun of Top Gear on BBC iPlayer, I had a thought run through my mind. What was the reason to have the parade of red cars on the track at the start of the intro? I'm not sure if Richard has mentioned it previously. Also, where did the cars come from? CMTMB, Will." That's a good [chuckles] question because, God, that was a long time ago. It was the original titles, so from two thousand and two until some point when they were changed. So the backstory to that, as far as I can remember, is just that it was decided that there should be something, and I think was there some original plan that there was going to be like a Ferrari sort of hassling loads of other cars out of the way. Some of that may even have been filmed. But in the end, it was just that bit of them all going in a sort of