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Added 2022-07-24 17:02:00 +0000 UTCHello again. This week we have some actual cars as pictures, starting with what a base model Kia Picanto looks like, followed by what a base model Range Rover looks like. You could have just over eight of the former for one of the latter. Then we have the latest Fiesta and Focus facelifts. See if you agree that one works better than the other. Finally, there’s the new Peugeot 308 which Richard thinks looks weirdly heavy around the front end.
If you’d like to literally follow in the footsteps of Jonny and his dad you can find out more about the Mineral Line walk here (weirdly dressed man brushing a small Hyundai not guaranteed) - https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/attraction/mineral-line/
When Top Gear established how British people say Dacia (including, towards the end, acknowledgement of the way Dacia say it) - https://youtu.be/A7-7Ps8EWnk
The Smith and Sniff encyclopaedia - https://www.patreon.com/posts/smith-and-sniff-68942567
The eBay ock-shun for the terrible Jag-based Banham has ended but you can see the listing here - https://bit.ly/3Onn5J3
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Matthew Carpenter
2025-01-15 04:21:13 +0000 UTCWell I actually played there tonight. On listening again, the man was described as sinuey but alas Roy has a landlords beer belly so is probably not the Hyundai brush man!
Martin Mees
2022-07-31 00:29:15 +0000 UTCThat's not a knife, this is a......secateurs
John Hempson
2022-07-28 07:56:26 +0000 UTCMany Pod's ago talked about a safety advertising campaign that was terrifying, watched this last night. I think if this was made today the OHS people would have a pink fit. Cheers. Stephen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD0deGer-XI
Stephen Voss
2022-07-28 06:14:04 +0000 UTCJust re the Hyundai pronunciation. In Australia it was guided by the ads in the 90s(?) with the tag line “All Day, Every Day, Hi-un-Day”
David Heath
2022-07-28 02:38:52 +0000 UTCI did not know that! My JDM car knowledge is about 4 years behind the curve, since it comes largely from looking at what’s for sale in Malta, where Japan imports are very common (small, automatic, air conditioned, RHD, often white)
Ed Storer
2022-07-28 00:14:18 +0000 UTCOh my that Banham thing is just….awful! Also the Fawds new badge placement looks like it got a bit hot and slid off the top of the grill surround - not good
Ant N
2022-07-27 22:47:52 +0000 UTCI was thinking the Fake Lake show where Jonny installs vinyl body's of water across the world such as the marina at the Miami GP
Ben Halloran
2022-07-27 09:59:11 +0000 UTCAnother alternative title for Jonny’s YT channel - The “Straight Lake Show”, where Johnny continually paddles a canoe up a canal while getting continually confusing between canals and lakes.
Richard Fitton-Perkins
2022-07-26 16:20:03 +0000 UTCThe Mazda Demio is still one of the starter cars in the latest release of Gran Turismo that came out earlier this year. However most players opt for the Honda Fit (aka Jazz). It’s worth noting that Mazda retired the Demio name in 2019 and now use Mazda 2 in Japan.
Gordon Segar
2022-07-26 14:45:09 +0000 UTCThis reminded me of my Grandad's allotment - in sunny Leytonstone. Also: I had a little squirt of pride when discussing an Up (exclamation mark), GTI. Mine is nice and clean in 4 door red right now!
Matthew Kemp
2022-07-26 09:18:22 +0000 UTCAlso can I make a suggestion for an entry to the Smith N Sniff encyclopedia: Needless to Say. Jonny did it twice, so it must qualify. All the best chaps.
Firstdan2000
2022-07-26 08:57:24 +0000 UTCJonny, I'm copying your dad's example: I'm going out walking armed with some secateurs, and maybe something recommended by Mick Dundee for all the bleedin nettles I have to get through.
Firstdan2000
2022-07-26 08:55:02 +0000 UTCCorrect. On the first GT (PlayStation 1, I think - my dad and I were very cool), we could only afford a Demio, and we occasionally won some local currency for winning a race. I was disappointed to drive a Demio in real life a few years later, in Malta. These days, the Mazda 2 is known as the Demio on Japan.
Ed Storer
2022-07-26 00:20:49 +0000 UTCThe 308 looks like a Pierrot clown and now I'm a little bit scared of it.
Maurice Barnes
2022-07-25 23:05:52 +0000 UTCI have a feeling that the Woodstock-spec Hyundai brushing, bum-showing man in Whatshit may be a man called Roy who runs the Esplanade Club on the harbour. As a musician I play a couple of times a year in that pub. I don't know him well but he's very nice man. I'd be happy to ask him next time if he has a Hyundai i10, washes it with a dustpan brush, recalls speaking with Jonny Smith off of YouTube, 5th Gear and all of that, and most importantly if he was aware of nearly flashing him his back eye/reversing camera whilst brushing under the sills of the i10.
Martin Mees
2022-07-25 21:12:58 +0000 UTCYeah the 508 looks awesome in your mirrors but it won’t work with a narrower taller car I reckon
Jim Galbraith
2022-07-25 16:14:40 +0000 UTCThe Hyundai man story reminds me of a time I went for a bike ride at a local trail. The trailhead was empty, save for a man of a certain age. He was wearing a button down shirt open to the navel, displaying his very tan and prominent belly. He kept staring me as I unloaded my bike and took off. Very creepy. Turns out that trailhead was popular among deviants looking for a little man love in the forest! Their signal apparently was to back their car into the parking spot, and I had unknowingly done so myself. In the States, no one backs in their car. So, maybe your hippie almost naked friend was a backer-inner?
Colin Kao
2022-07-25 13:09:18 +0000 UTCLove the podcast….but no discussion of William Storey drifting?!
Gwyn Hamer
2022-07-25 12:35:24 +0000 UTCI’m in my seventies, so definitely not the target audience. Used to have one of those reflective windscreen shield thingies in the 90s, when I was doing long commutes in the early mornings. Saved some time defrosting the windscreen after chilly nights. Don’t remember ever using it to keep the car cool. Might still have it somewhere in the attic/garage/various outhouses.
Chris Rayner
2022-07-25 10:27:27 +0000 UTCDead right about the hedgehog ground clearance, and on that side of things you must surely realise that the hedgehog is an off road creature par excellence. You must surely have noticed the consequences of on road travel to hedgehogs. Terminal squashening in many cases.
Chris Rayner
2022-07-25 10:13:11 +0000 UTCThe mazda demio was possibly the only car you can afford at start of gran turismo also think it was the first license test think was the brake test
John Hempson
2022-07-25 07:49:37 +0000 UTCI’d have an OTSOT sun screen. However I’m in my 60s, so probably the wrong demographic 😂
Marc
2022-07-25 07:42:16 +0000 UTCThe Focus does look better than the Fez, not helped with the grille being bigger than the actual opening on the smaller car
Bruce Driffill
2022-07-25 07:28:28 +0000 UTCNow I'm seeing an opportunity for Commer, on air suspension, painted up like a hedgehog. Like a more sophisticated version of the Mutt Cutts van.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 22:08:37 +0000 UTCOh no they can put an impressive almost 959 Dakar like escape across uneaven ground
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 21:22:41 +0000 UTCI agree though about leaving them down, it's just sloppy much like people who leave the centre console lids open when parked. I like the car to be neat and tidy cubby wise when getting in, see also lots of charging leads dangling :(
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 21:19:47 +0000 UTCWhat the hell?! They’re hydropneumatic! But also their track looks too narrow, like a Commer van.
Smith and Sniff
2022-07-24 20:47:22 +0000 UTCThe first result on YouTube for 'Hedgehog running' is a great demonstration of the legs that seem to come out of nowhere when they need to get a move on. With funny music, naturally. Very much like a DS with the suspension at full height.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 20:14:22 +0000 UTCThey can WHAT?
Smith and Sniff
2022-07-24 20:04:00 +0000 UTCIt depends on the car. And the time of day.
Smith and Sniff
2022-07-24 20:03:41 +0000 UTCTalking rubbish about hedgehog ground clearance there guys, clearly you've never seen one lift its skirt up like a Citroen DS and leg it across a lawn! I've never seen a DS curl up into a ball but many have been made into cubes.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 19:21:28 +0000 UTCBoth of you like me are 6'3" and how many times do you really use the sun visors? In my case its about 2 weeks in spring or autumn when the sun is that just low point at either end of the day
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 19:02:52 +0000 UTCRich, my Father in law calls everyone "old so and so" as in "old Max" his grandson!
Nigel Hancock
2022-07-24 18:59:29 +0000 UTCI thought it was just me eagerly waiting on the fizzy yogurt mystery,that was from the very early podcasts im sure.
Peter Bland
2022-07-24 18:42:30 +0000 UTCI went to the postcode shown on the linked site for the Mineral Line (TA23 0PA) in Google Maps, in hope of seeing brush man's Hyundai. Didn't find that but instead I looked around the nearby streets and found a place on the A39 that has a Singer Vogue and a couple of mk3 Cavs on the drive.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 18:39:40 +0000 UTCAgree on the slightly Jimmy Durante nose on the 308. Mentioned it on an internet and got roundly criticised by a 'prick on an internet forum'.
Peter Heamon
2022-07-24 18:17:58 +0000 UTCI seem to remember In Australia they used to have an advert that had the tag line “say hi to Hyundai” with the rhyme so it was defo Hyundai-Die in Aus
david price
2022-07-24 17:58:23 +0000 UTCAlso greatly enjoying the encyclopedia here! Another few “adds” though, how about Deceased Spec and Had To Stop Driving Spec? Not to mention, smearing the clutch on a manual hearse perhaps!
Chris
2022-07-24 17:43:11 +0000 UTCEnjoying the promotion of the encyclopedia in the show notes. Is the fabled mysterious Fizzy Yoghurt lost to history though?
Fox Munsey
2022-07-24 17:25:13 +0000 UTCoh and the focus facelift looks better than the fiesta.
Robert McDonald
2022-07-24 17:16:06 +0000 UTCI would need to see the 308 from the side to make a judgement, but front three quarters does look nose heavy.
Robert McDonald
2022-07-24 17:15:42 +0000 UTCFord must have found Saab's old makeup bag and had a go at the heavy eyeliner.
Matt Tester
2022-07-24 17:09:27 +0000 UTCThe 308 looks like a new face on an old body, which is exactly what it is. And they've taken what makes the 508 look great and gone too far with it.
Robin Johnsen
2022-07-24 17:04:33 +0000 UTC
