Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Johnny Smith. I'm Richard Porter. And this is Smith & Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. What in the name of lychee-scented mermaid's tears is going on with modified Ford Rangers at the moment? Yes.
We're talking... My reference for lychee-scented mermaid tears is the vape, which comes out of them when they seem to cog it past me, or tailgate with quite an aggressive bonnet height because they've been lifted.
Yeah.
And the track width has been widened.
But at their best, they look like somebody who has spent a lot of time in the gym, possibly also on the roids. Yeah. I think at their worst, they just look like they've got an infection. Just, you know, someone gets like a swollen eye or something like that. You just go, oh shit, bits of your truck have swollen up, mate.
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Chapter 2: What are the current trends with modified Ford Rangers?
You want to get that looked at, get some antibiotics, it'll be fine.
There's a lot of cars at the moment which I think they're charging premium money and they've got a lot of shitty plastic thrown onto them, which is obvious. It doesn't even look expensive, but yet the cost price is more expensive. And I think these mad Rangers, Ford Rangers, and to anyone that doesn't know about the Ford Ranger, it's basically...
Now, it looks so much like the F-150, but that just shrunk down a little, isn't it? Yeah. It's like a two-thirds F-150 or a three-quarters F-150. I don't know.
But also for context for people overseas, that truck culture is not the same here as it is in the US. No. I just think, or in Australia for that matter, I just don't think we don't have the same culture of outdoorsiness. No. Because our weather's not as good.
Yeah, we do camper vans if we're going to do outdoorsiness.
We do camper vans. Yeah, you don't haul a load of tents into the wilderness to go camping and hiking. No. As Americans do. No. You go down to Cornwall in a camper van and you drink a cup of tea inside in a drizzle storm. That's right. And then go for a walk while wearing anorak. And that's fine. That's us. Culturally, that's where we are. But then the truck kind of... And a dry robe. Yes.
Oh, God, yeah, of course, and a dry robe. But then the tax rules made having a truck advantageous if you could put it through and small business. And so lots of people got them, even though, you know, they're actually like, I don't know, they run a gym or something. They don't really need to haul a lot of stuff in the back.
Yeah.
But they could use it as a family car because it's a double cap. They tweaked the rules again, didn't they? But for a while it was like just, it was open season on getting pickup trucks as family cars because you could claim the fare back.
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Chapter 3: Why are modified Mercedes X-Class vehicles popular despite their performance?
I've got a Hispano-Suiza IQ. I'm going to call it the, I don't know. Well, it signals a baby swan, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. So what would a baby Ferrari be? Foal. Ferrari Foal. Foal. Yes. Oh, yeah. The Ferrari Foal. That's actually quite good. Yeah. Well, if you're listening Ferrari, which you're not. No.
Well, you can have that one for free.
You can have that one for free on the proviso that I get the first one and I'll spec it in a lunatic way. The foal. Thank you. The foal.
I've become slightly obsessed with that Ferrari electric car that's coming. You know, we've seen the interior of the Luce.
We've talked about it a lot, actually, haven't we? Which is a good thing.
Yeah. The camouflage prototypes have a very boxy, a lot of camouflage on them.
and the wipers look really bonky like i cannot figure out that those can't be production spec wipers they look they actually look too big for the windscreen it's like i i was on a train the other day and i was just staring at photos of the of the prototypes on test trying to work out it's like what is under there it can't look anything like that i mean i think it's being announced
next month but i can't wait to see it just because i think that it's actually going to be tiny i think that most of what we're seeing in those prototypes on test is just camouflage it's underneath that there's like a little sort of matchbox car
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Chapter 4: What makes the Aston Martin Signet a sought-after vehicle?
I think I know what car they would be solving crimes in very conspicuously. Yeah. Would you like me to share it with you?
Yes. Yes, I would.
Because I think... I can't stop laughing about the bad leather. I think that you're going to get extremely excited about this. Yes, here we go. There and there. It was Porter's birthday the other day.
and and i forgot to wish you a happy birthday you slag have a look at what i've just found i know sorry thank you for your birthday wishes and thank you also um for the fact that uh you were part of a fiendish surprise the day after my birthday it was fiendish yeah that involved me walking into a restaurant expecting it was just my wife and i going to have a romantic lunch for two and in fact there were like a dozen of my friends there
which was delightful, but absolutely blindsiding. And you know that one of the guys there was videoing me as I walked in. Yeah. And when he sent the video to my wife, she opened it on her phone with no sound. And all you saw was my face and then me very clearly mouthing the words fucking hell, which seemed in retrospect a little ungrateful. But anyway, it was fabulous.
We won't get bogged down in that. Because you've just shown me a 1986 Jaguar XJS V12 with the Tom Walkinshaw racing kit on it. And it's white. I was going to say, it's finished in white.
Holy heck. So this thing, genuine TWR fettled XJS. Now, we've talked about XJSs for a while. And I liked them when no one else liked them. And now lots of people like them. So I can't decide whether to like them anymore or not. But they're still quite cheap. And this one here is actually, it goes under the hammer on the 1st of May.
So when you listen to this, the hammer will have already released and they'll be bidding. But you can put a pre-bid on. And there is one pre-bid right now for this car, 61,000 mile right-hand drive auto V12 in Yorkshire. And what I like about this, have you seen the TWR leather steering wheel and coordinating door cards and centre console? I was just admiring that.
I've never seen that before, but... I haven't. Quite often, when these Jags got modified, there was a temptation that some people would put in a pretty terrible steering wheel because... Always. The factory wheel was a bit unsporty, but then they put in some god-awful sort of off-the-shelf four-spoke or three-spoke and did it right. This... This looks great. This is TVR.
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Chapter 5: How does the camouflage of the Ferrari Luce stand out?
and so when you drive around you will just look like the guy that's got or the lady that's got her shit together and and so i want i that's why i now want to be sl guy sl sl guy um or sl ave to love slave to love because it is quite brian ferry spec it's quite smooth and oh yeah isn't it and
sort of Brian Ferry's wardrobe would probably work quite well with SL ownership I think so yes I yeah I do fancy an SL now you bugger well It's time to go straight back onto current classic for goodness sake.
I know, I was just thinking the same thing. Idiot. Speaking, as we were there, about cars that are a bit lower and that are not SUVs, I've mentioned on recent episodes that I'm starting the hunt for a new family car. Yeah. And I... Well, so I had that Renault Scenic. I wasn't wowed by it. It was all right, but I didn't fall in love with it. Yeah.
So last week, I was driving a Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer. And that is right up your strata because it's an estate car. It's not an SUV. It is an estate. It's a proper trad estate. I was following that the other day. Yeah. Well, because when we were talking, my wife and I were talking about our next car and she went, did VW make anything? And I went, no, no, God, those bloody ID3s and things.
No, ID4s, no, they're just not quite good enough. And then I suddenly remembered the ID7 and I drove it when it came out. I went on the launch in Milton Keynes and drove the hatchback one and remember thinking it was a really nice car. And then I spoke to our friend Jason Barlow because he had an ID7 hatch as a long-termer.
And I read his reports online and I spoke to him and went, so it sounds like you really liked it. And he was like, yeah, it was a really pleasant car. It's like mega exciting. It's just pleasant. Accomplished. So I borrowed this Tourer. It is so pleasant. It is just pleasantness incarnate. It's really easy listening. Yeah. It's... Really quiet, really smooth. It's got a bit of pep, actually.
It's good. You know, he's kind of, if you want it, but also mega range on it. I've heard about the range. And I think it's partly because it's low and aero.
It's quite efficient. Two desirable VWs for me. The Arteon is up there.
Yes.
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