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Added 2023-03-12 18:01:07 +0000 UTCThis week we start with pics of the BMW M3 Touring and Jaguar F-Pace SVR Edition 1988. Then we have a typical cover of Custom Car magazine from the ‘70s, the muscular Merc 500E, and the abandoned Porsche 989 project from 1991. Now, some links…
In case you haven't seen The Gold yet, it's on iPlayer
That lovely Mercedes 500E for sale
We forgot to mention that various bits of Smith and Sniff-related music are now on Soundcloud
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Please please please upload 'Eddie Irvine lives in my wardrobe' to soundcloud.
Damian
2023-03-22 17:33:59 +0000 UTCClicked on the link for the auction of The Beast just to see the countdown tick over to the end of the auction. My chance to own a piece of history scuppered by poor timing (and a lack of sufficient funds, space, time etc)
Fox Munsey
2023-03-16 20:43:34 +0000 UTCFunny you should mention BMWs and snow.... https://youtu.be/OP6WPAfg0yI?t=43
Stephen Cooper
2023-03-16 16:53:39 +0000 UTCLast weekend I was in a hedgelaying course and the instructor kept OTSOTing when talking about laying hedges. I suspect I was the only one smirking inside every time he used the term, as the demographic of the course wasn't exactly S&S heartland. Cheered me on through the laying of the hedge though!
Thomas Cowley
2023-03-15 15:15:32 +0000 UTCIn the Gold another error is the car hierarchy, the Gov would of had the Granada and the detectives the Sierra surely? Also they mention the lack of a Pursuit Car, would that of been a Rover 3500 VDP with a Vitesse spec engine?
Cornish Rider
2023-03-15 13:11:21 +0000 UTCA debadged 500E is right up there with a de-pinstriped early Alpina. Bovensiepen said the Swiss owners go even further and put 320 diesel badges on their Alpina 3er estates (there would be no disguising that Bavarian Mansory Werkes thing pictured)
Brendan McAleer
2023-03-15 03:34:45 +0000 UTCThe Jag is the same colour as my 98 Honda Civic (very short run) 1.8 Vtec Spowaaaaaaataaaaaaaaaah-a estate. That was purple!! Honestly guv!
Peter Viney
2023-03-14 10:28:10 +0000 UTCWhen I first saw a E36 BMW on the road, it looked like a spaceship. So cool. Ordered a new one back then. No new BMW can bring on that sort of emotion surely. They lost the plot a long time ago.
Mark Heeler
2023-03-14 06:23:37 +0000 UTCYears ago I said to my wife: “It’s dawned on me, I must be a nightmare to live with.” Her: “Hmmmm.” That was the end of the conversation.
Ant Brown
2023-03-13 13:54:27 +0000 UTCI believe it's part of the M-Flute package.
Mat Guest
2023-03-13 10:52:09 +0000 UTCThe 1970's custom scene was a worrying place, amazing how many Bedford CF vans ended up with pumped up suspension, slot mag wheels and a curious port hole window grafted into the side panels plus the obligatory side pipes.
John Hammond
2023-03-13 09:19:35 +0000 UTCWow ok, the dive planes look silly, but those pipes make the rear look terrible. Just started watching Harry's review, so thats where I picked up the pipe thing. As always he put up some of the options that were specced with the car, I don't get on a now 100K car why the BMW M 50 years badge is a 300 quid option... Thinking of this pod, do they now charge to remove all the badges?
Stephen Voss
2023-03-13 09:18:50 +0000 UTCJust looked again, that's unpleasant looking too, seems like it needs a dab of ointment to clear that up
Daniel Wilkinson
2023-03-13 09:09:16 +0000 UTCOptional M Performance pipes, apparently. Note the dive planes on the front bumper, also an M Performance option.
Smith and Sniff
2023-03-13 09:06:57 +0000 UTCThe picture of the rear of the M3 and the pipe arrangement looks a little different to how the pipes are arranged on reviews. Is that an option of a SNAFU?
Stephen Voss
2023-03-13 09:00:01 +0000 UTCThe unibrow was DEFINITELY the thing I zoomed in on too
Simon Barrett
2023-03-13 01:09:07 +0000 UTCWhat u listening to, my wife says - therapy I says, what for - the lack of empathy for the incorrect vehicles used in gold we watched. I won’t outline her response, I might be barred.
Robert Clay-parker
2023-03-12 23:59:47 +0000 UTCHe has two mustaches
Geoff Evans
2023-03-12 21:49:02 +0000 UTCThe unibrow!
Ross Hetherington
2023-03-12 20:39:01 +0000 UTCMy e90 (2wd) has been okay so far in the inclement weather ❄️🥶 but am not a helmet.
Nathan English
2023-03-12 19:21:35 +0000 UTCQuite unlike any I have ever seen before - the ‘brow, not the Merc.
David Phillips
2023-03-12 18:57:33 +0000 UTCHoly crap, the unibrow on that guy in the 500E 😲
Mike Zafiris
2023-03-12 18:25:11 +0000 UTC
