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What new Beetle did Jonny buy for his daughter and how much did it cost?
I'm Johnny Smith. I'm Richard Porter. And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
Do you know, I completely forgot to tell you th the other week that um that my daughter Kitty May uh turned seventeen and started driving.
Well
you did tell me that or did I tell me a
photo of what you'd done to that new beetle as a new shape, not new beetle that you bought for her. Oh yeah. How much was that car, can you say?
Yeah, I think I can say that, Richard. Um I paid seven hundred and eighty pounds for that car uh in February this year.
I was rather hoping you were going to express that in a stupid way. Seven point eight hundred pounds.
Seven
Yes. Um so seven hundred and eighty sheets. But it's a tidy looking car for that money. Well in the pictures it looks great. And then but then you sent me that photo 'cause you've put the the disc wheel covers on it.
I have. I've done some I've done some wheel changes which I will I'll talk about when I film an episode. Oh I'll do it on i Instagram as well. But I just wanted to make it pop, as the kids would say. And being a black beetle, it needed something. Oh, is it black? It's black. It's jet black. Absolutely. Non metallic, shiny, shiny black, taxi black.
Wow, okay. In my head I was just thinking of the picture you sent me. I thought of thought it was dark blue, but yeah, okay, black. Black's good. I mean Yeah. I know people probably want those cars in fun colours, but um Yeah. Classic.
Oh when I when I went looking for it, Rich Richard, just remember you buy on condition. You buy on condition and on price, okay, and that's what I did. I was looking for a non rotten, non hanging beetl a millennium beetle, and believe me, there's a lot of very tired examples of the mark that are yellow and green. All the zesty colours. Um that the and I actually found the original launch um brochure and press pack that I gave to my I gave to my daughter as well, which I think she half gave a shit about. And um but it was more as much as half. Wow. It was but it was more about when are you going to make it uh when are you gonna fit a Bluetooth head unit uh with Apple CarPlay. Do you think
That the zestier colours naturally attract people who aren't paying attention to the condition of the car or are the sort of people who aren't that into cars they just want something fun and therefore they're ignoring fundamental structural rot that's happening in front of their eyes.
Oh yes. Fun demental. I I agree. Um At first I thought, okay, so black's not her first choice for for a Beetle and my and it's not mine, but the condition's good. It's done fifty four thousand miles or fifty three thousand miles. Really? Yeah, okay. It has. It's two owners and it was garaged up until three or four years ago its whole life. So I yeah, so I I think I did well. I think I did well. And uh it i I dated well. And you forget these bloody cars are twenty five years old now. So
Yes.
They're a late nineties car the Beatles. I remember driving a left hand driver early one and I drove it from the UK back to its home in Wolfsburg, where we realised very quickly that it was low geared. Oh did that did I
Did all the people from Volkswagen come out of Volkswagen and go, What are you doing? We sent this to you! Don't bring it back! It's for you! I I d I had the same. Did you? Well, I n as in I didn't take a left and drive Beetle for the UK back to Wolfsburg. Uh I uh we were making the cars the star about the Beatle, and we got by a lot of pleading and begging The first or certainly one of the first left hand drive Beatles in the country to film with Um But in the end they let us have it for a week, I think, maybe even more. Uh and and we ended up using it essentially the director and I as our sort of just crew car to get around the country to film all these little bits and pieces we were doing. So I did a lot of miles.
Yeah, low geared, yes.
Very low geared. Um but it's and the she she loves it. And it was terrifying going out on the road for the first time After d this was her birth her birthday lunch.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What new Beetle did Jonny buy for his daughter and how much did it cost?
0:01–11:03
2
Why is Mini naming so confusing and what do the Cooper, One, and S designations mean?
11:03–18:53
3
What is the story behind the rare Daihatsu Mira TR‑XX Avanzato and why is it so hard to find?
18:53–44:32
4
How did Jonny’s meeting with Noel Edmonds on the Isle of Man happen?
44:32–1:08:34
5
What adventures did Jonny have on the Isle of Man, including the Manx Electric Railway ride?
1:08:34–1:10:59