Richard Porter
@sniffpetrol.com
Astronaut, stunt man, liar. Also one half of Smith and Sniff.
Car PRs in the USA! Do you have any cars you desperately need moving from Monterey to Los Angeles the day after Pebble Beach Concours? Would you like Smith and Sniff, the UK's number one car podcast, to do it for you? Great, let's talk! (Yes, we're on the scrounge.)
I was reminded earlier that when the Jeep Avenger came out a mate sent me a recording of its drum machine-y indicator sound and I started building a track around it. For no logical reason whatsoever, this evening I decided to finish it. And here we are. soundcloud.com/otsot/jeep-a...
Jeep Avenger
I was challenged to make a track based on the indicator sound of the Jeep Avenger and this is what happened.
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They say there's no money in releasing music these days but I beg to differ.
Head to The Intercooler today to read my story about the surprisingly elaborate measures used to camouflage the new Jag (and the really elaborate trick they decided against).
Another fabulous Festival of the Unexceptional on Saturday. Still my favourite car event of the year. Thanks to everyone who put up with Smith and Sniff nonsense when we were on stage and came to say hi when we weren't. Truly, an great day out.
The new track I've made using samples from the C.R.E.A.M. podcast is now on all the usual streaming platforms. It's called Lorries. Search ADO 88 to find it.
If you've heard this week's C.R.E.A.M. podcast you'll know I've made another stupid bit of music using snippets from their show. After Tractors At Night, this is Lorries... ado88.bandcamp.com/track/lorries
Lorries, by ADO 88
track by ADO 88
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This new Range Rover GT is all well and good, but I find myself wishing they'd looked at the wider back catalogue for the side window shape.
How Many Left reckons there's just one Sao Penza left in Britain and it's SORN. The question is, where is it?
It's Monday, there's a new episode of Smith and Sniff on the loose. This week, details of a live show in the USA and I spill the secrets of car prototype camouflage after getting some time with three new Jags.
Does anyone know what’s going on with those little Caramac-coloured houses alongside the pitch in the World Cup final stadium?
"Hey, guys, come on, there's nothing pervy about invading people's privacy."
Konrad Iturbe@konraditurbe.dev · last mo.The rayban meta glasses are a good product ruined by both Meta and an insufferable minority of users who should get their pair smashed into pieces. I own 2 pairs and will continue wearing them, due to the fact that I'm not a pervert creep.
Had a smashing time at the Festival of Speed but it seems I forgot to take photos of anything except two Group B cars and the world's most comfortable headrest. Sorry.
Any Logic Pro wizards know why when I move or duplicate a section using the arrangement markers, it insists on joining regions like this? It does it no matter which drag mode I'm in. Logic on my old laptop didn't do this.
Sadly, Jonny and I aren't doing Smith and Sniff walkaround videos from the Festival of Speed this year but why not watch last year's vids and simply pretend we forgot to mention any of the new cars there this year. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Smith and Sniff at Goodwood FoS 2025 - YouTube
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While up in the Midlands earlier this week I saw something slightly interesting lurking in the car park of the British Motor Museum.
These are the SEECRIT JAGZ I was poking around earlier this week. The blue car is currently zooming up the hill at Goodwood. The car on the left is a third phase prototype in the commonly papped camo. But the car on the right is the really interesting one...
Had a tremendously interesting day yesterday which led to me coming home with this. Spotter's badge if you can tell what it is and what it's from.
This fully camouflaged Jag XJ40 prototype used to be on display in the Coventry Museum of Transport. Does anyone know if they still have it?
From World Car Explosion, the perfect sunshine soundtrack! spray.bandcamp.com/album/world-...
A reminder that your task for this weekend is to stream the living crap out of this song to get it in the charts. Yeah, watch out Rodrigo, Swift and Charli Former Citroen. Spot: open.spotify.com/track/6CPAwZ... Appl Mu: music.apple.com/gb/album/tra... Amz mu: music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0H6C...
Tractors at night
ADO 88 · Tractors at night · Song · 2026
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A definitive high performance hatchback (parked next to some Toyota).
While looking up stuff for a story, I noticed Peugeot used to have this sweet habit of putting the project code and, I presume, the build number on the number plates of its prototypes. 205 was projet M24, the 605 was Z6.
Just had cause to look up the used car dealer ads I used to do on Sniff Petrol. Extremely stupid.
Tractors at night, the track I made sampling the excellent C.R.E.A.M. podcast, is now on Spotify, Apple Music and all the major streaming platforms. Please stream the merry heck out of it this weekend and let's show that pesky Olivia Rodrigo she doesn't own the charts.