Jonny Smith (journalist)

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Jonny Smith
Born (1979-02-24) 24 February 1979 (age 46)
Taunton, Somerset, UK
Occupations
Television Fifth Gear
The Late Brake Show
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers683 thousand [1]
Total views138 million [1]
Website thelatebrakeshow.com
Last updated: December 2024

Jonathan Charles Smith (born 24 February 1979) is a British motoring journalist and television presenter. He was one of the presenters on Channel 5 motoring programme Fifth Gear and has since presented Mud, Sweat & Gears for BBC America and Motorheads for BBC Worldwide.

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Career

Smith first worked for a custom and vintage VW magazine, becoming the editor after three years. He went on to work for magazine publisher EMAP, where he wrote features for magazines such as Max Power , Car magazine, Revs and Classic Cars.

Smith appeared on Sky One's Movies' Greatest Cars in 2005, where he was noticed by North One Television, producers of Fifth Gear , and subsequently asked to attend a screen test. [2] Smith hosted his own engineering-based documentary television series, Industrial Junkie . [3] In March 2014, he began filming a series with Tom Ford called Mud, Sweat & Gears : this was broadcast on BBC America during February and March 2015.

Smith was a presenter of the web TV and podcast show Fully Charged until January 2020. [4] [5] He now creates videos for his YouTube channel, The Late Brake Show, which he describes as "a broad church of automotive appreciation", [6] and presents the Smith and Sniff podcast with Richard Porter. [7] [8]

Despite no longer having a televisual career, Smith remains a motoring journalist, enjoying classic and custom cars as a hobby. Having owned over 130 cars, he built a classic electric hot rod called 'Jonny's Flux Capacitor' [9] which for a time claimed to be the world's quickest street legal EV. His other cars include a '68 Dodge Charger, a modified, re-engined, Honda VTEC powered Austin Allegro, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS, a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid and a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle (his first car, owned since he took his driving test at 17). [10] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "About TheLateBrakeShow". YouTube.
  2. ↑ Eckford, Alex (18 July 2012). "Auto Talk: Fifth Gear's Jonny Smith". Auto Trader. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Laughlin, Andrew (7 September 2009). "'Industrial Junkie' to premiere on Quest". Digital Spy. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  4. ↑ Llewellyn, Robert (28 January 2020). "The end of one era, and the beginning of another". Fully Charged Show. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  5. ↑ Smith, Jonny (29 January 2020). "To answer the masses of comments and DMs, and indeed following @bobbyllew 's blog post yesterday, I wanted to clarify that myself and Mark @inksharkman Hankins (FC's creative director, videographer, editor) have indeed stopped working for @FullyChargedShw. 1/3". @Carpervert. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. ↑ "Announcement: I am Jonny Smith aka Car Pervert. - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  7. ↑ Booth, Mike (19 March 2024). "Smith and Sniff to headline 2024 Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional". Driven. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  8. ↑ Lillywhite, David (1 August 2024). "We took a break from the usual events for the tenth anniversary Festival of the Unexceptional". Magneto. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "On the road in the Flux Capacitor, Europe's fastest street-legal EV". 15 December 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Me & My Car: Jonny Smith & his '68 Dodge Charger". evo. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  11. ↑ "RE: Project Retirement Rocket PART 1 - Page 1 - General Gassing - PistonHeads UK". www.pistonheads.com. Retrieved 1 December 2020.


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