Richard Hammond on his past, present and future

[@Carfeu]

Richard just feels like an old friend to us

[@topmandog1]

yeah im 24 so i feel like ive known him my entire life

[@natronlut]

he does. and it breaks my heart that an era with the 3 old chaps has ended. I hope they can cock up some thing together again.

[@pauliewalnuts240]

richards quick witted humor is unrivaled. Everyone wants to be funny but even during this relatively serious podcast, he still manages to have every answer verbalized in a humorous way.

[@spongebobsquaretits]

ive heard Jeremy Clarkson say many times how genuinely funny he is

[@BigFatTiddies]

Jeremy once said Richard is the funniest person he knows but unfortunately it doesn't come across on camera

[@aureliomarsili3902]

Conversation street !!!

[@helipeek2736]

More of a cul-de-sac.

[@topmandog1]

let us lower the roof on the car of comedy and interest on this, conversation street!

[@Dpro78]

more M4 😍😂

[@richardhoughton7892]

Too many flash photos going on & became annoying. Content otherwise very interesting!

[@michaelsaunders6923]

No airs and graces , no " look at me" attitude just seems like a genuine bloke ,

[@mikeplatts2603]

What a thoroughly nice, down to earth guy Richard is, I wish him all the best for the future.

[@majidalborz8993]

Great conversation, very enjoyable. Thanks to all three of you.

[@adammoore1777]

Richard having a little excited pop every time he hears an air wrench in the background is just precious.

[@GhostNation1]

Great interview and great to see Richard in his brief serious moments talking passionately about the future of the motor industry. Great questions and a lovely relaxed and informal feel to the whole interview. Thank you 🙂

[@stephenmorgan5100]

Great show but please tell your event photographer that they don’t need flash :-)

[@MartinBaldock]

Fascinating conversation, most enjoyable and glad Richard has an understanding of the potential for different approaches to the future of the car, not just EVs

[@Lady-Seashell-Bikini]

And honestly, the real answer is to focus more on public transportation. Not everyone wants to drive, but in the States, where I live, almost everyone is required to have a car or they would never get to go anywhere. By focusing more on public transportation, car makers can focus more on cars for people who enjoy driving.

[@nottmfunguy]

I would suspect Richard Hammond wouldn't consider EV's attractive, basically soulless I think comes to mind.

[@WAFFLNATORE]

This needs more views, a well hidden gem

[@elmofeneken4364]

What an enjoyable evening I had tonight sitting here watching this video on this frigid evening at my residence and nothing enjoyable on the TV to watch. Richard thanks for entertaining me this night.

[@BiggerThanFrogs]

Really enjoyable conversation. Thank you.

[@stevemawer848]

Great content, shame they couldn't find a stills photographer who understands "available light" instead of spoiling the video with his flash.

[@johnturner4400]

I had to put my iPad to one side as it was making my head spin.

[@gavla-82]

What a interesting Podcast. Fully agree with Richard, "give us a choice". I have always said my 2003 Ford Fiesta is much greener then an EV, mainly because she doesn't do more then 1500 miles a year. It would be more damaging to scrap a perfectly good working car and trying to find the cost of a new EV. Then having the issue of not being able to charge it at home, due to living a block of apartments with no outside socket.

[@goncalomoura8156]

Matt Prior, I have to tell you. You were in front of two monsters of automotive journalism, and you seemed a bit contrived, a bit humbled, just quietly and respectably listening to what those legends were discusting. Sir, I must point, you stand on the same ground as those two gentlemen, you are one of the greatest auto journalists that I have ever saw or read in my automotive life!

[@EILONadiv]

The phorographer taking pics is disturbing

[@herme99]

Definitely useful to have Richards name on the desk!

[@topmandog1]

he does forget

[@patlalla148]

Lets Richard know where to sit.

[@paulfinch5417]

Wonderful conversation, production points aside, Richards passion oozes through the camera … truly hope the Cog grows and if budget allows would love to see the E-Type as the showcase over the R/S ….

[@cdg3818]

Excellent stuff. We’d never get anything like this on TV these days

[@timothyhairston2051]

The more I listen to Hammond the more I realize some people are just inevitable. He was always going to be some version of this in every timeline, one of a kind bloke

[@notthejustachrisevans5412]

What a lovely interview! Honestly, brings positivity and perspective to life

[@JimWall]

Really interesting interview hearing Richard talking about things that I've not heard him talk about before. Ruined a bit by the camera flashes.

[@topmandog1]

yeah i came into watching this thinking hammond has done 101 videos with other people in the last few months but hes really saved the good topics for this one

[@seayavietnam]

Great interview, shame about the photographer messing up the production. So annoying. 😑

[@Ziccolumbia]

Great interview!

[@richardmortimer8147]

3 great 'Car Men' there! S Cropley seems to have been around for ever.

[@stephenashby9858]

A very nice KZbin. Well put together as with all production makes it looks so easy and relaxed! Btw Richard I totally get the motorbike thing…👍

[@bastee2727]

Richard Hammond is really important.

[@hexgraphica]

BBC, or whoever retains the right to the filmed material, should put out extended version of their trips and challenges. They were originally cut to a very fast pace so that they'd fill a 20min or 60min TV slot, but nowadays the KZbin pace is much slower and the same specials might be twice as long if cut as content for KZbin

[@topmandog1]

they would be butchered, they realised a few dvds after 2015 and they were just lazy clip together ones, the a-z was the only half decent one, theyd need to bring in andy wilman to edit them, the modern team never worked with the trio, so it would be edited like modern tg

[@bigladdan]

Really enjoyed that thanks.

[@lesflynn4455]

Really interesting conversation gents. I never knew Drivetribe was app based. I alway's thought it was just a KZbin channel which I joined years ago. It has a very decent number of subscribers now, and is no doubt generating significant revenue. . Keep the content coming out, and keep the cast and viewers happy, it'll all be good. Mike Furney is great, Ben Collins is a fabulous regular guest, and that American guy, the CEO of GoPro - keep getting ppl like that on the channel, it'll grow like zits on a red bull loving teenager.

[@topmandog1]

yeah it was started as app in like 2016, the food side took off more then the car side on youtube but since the app shut its sorta swapped round, and james seems to have hit pause on his food videos

[@robertcarr4172]

Love old Hamster. Such a legend

[@MLBPeacePlanet]

Great chat guys. Liking the scruffy mechanic look Hammond, I'm not allowed to wear my fishing tunics at home...... Really enjoyed that, Just a good calm discussion amongst car nuts.

[@kurtobeney8738]

Proper entertainment!!!

[@th7297]

I love how Richard unfolds a vision of the future of cars. And yes, please tell Fridays for Future that, electric cars, Online chitchat (which they do as well) and switching to electric power as such produce way more carbon footprint than petrolheads in total 😎👍🏻

[@martinbyrne5626]

Let’s not do this.

[@th7297]

@@martinbyrne5626 you are right, we would get metoo‘d for this… 😇😂

[@GazGaryGazza]

The photographer supposed to be behind the camera instead of across it or in front of it and that flash every 10 seconds is extremely annoying

[@johndonaghy5674]

Excellent 👍 ❤

[@hondablack1]

Why on earth attend a meeting with macbooks that do nothing but balance on one’s knees.

[@jimgamble4355]

Richard, you really didn't need to sell any of those cars to fund the business. You're worth something like 230 million dollars. You could run that shop indefinitely with your income from your TV shows alone.

[@Standiford_]

i could listen to rh for hours lol

[@jamesjoslin1244]

Amazing man

[@ronbose6320]

Great interview, but the photographer was a HUGE distraction!

[@Yvolve]

13:30 I watched an interview with Clarkson 2 days ago where he tells the same story. I think the channel is called Joe. Clarkson told the story slightly different, where he asked Hammond where he was from, who responded with "De Nam, Cheltenham". That quick wit is what Jeremy said was the deciding factor. The same channel interviewed the other two plonkers as well. Quite fun to watch.

[@Gidenkidenk]

Richard, since the issue seems to be funding, why not make a loaning company specifically for old car restoration, where the money would usually go towards a new car purchase or another used vehicle, it manifests itself as a monthly payment to bring a car back to its former glory or utility?

[@parentsbasement7734]

It only took 3/4s of the way through for the Dude on the right to understand that the smallest cog is a for profit working shop. Damn Richard only said 20 times it's a working shop

[@fugamundi5963]

listening to Richard with a straight face takes some skill

[@BEGGARWOOD1]

Always interesting to me that when people talk about EV and highlight the impact mining for the materials has always ignored the impact drilling and refining oil has 😂

[@MarcosCodas]

"I don't like being in troube" - Says the guy who got a telling off from the Mexican ambassador

[@mikeclark4416]

Get Edd Childs from "Wheeler Dealers " WOW , What a show that would be !

[@thomastaylor1283]

Is that a shadow 6R4 or t16 passing the bike in the picture to your left. Have you got rid of your swim spar

[@durrydog53]

Hi, sorry it's been a long time since I contacted you . Sorry were treated so badly 😮. Brian❤

[@dwinterx]

Interesting chat, but some of the camera work was quite dodgy, and do you really need to take flash photos throughout a conversation? Quite annoying ...

[@fugamundi5963]

autocar went home with their dignity intact

[@iainriley617]

Great interview , just ask the camara guy to sit still please

[@harrylockton3379]

The flash photography mid interview gives this a real amateur porn vibe

[@richardcarter1000]

Hammond spot on about fuels. EVs will never be for me, I think they're a white elephant, but different fuels and making our cars last are the way to go, until we're allowed ICEs again Love the camera flashes like some dodgy porno.

[@rockypupoxo]

He's someone who's actually talking sense at last .

[@StephenLawrence01]

Yeah he is 'combustion engines never damaged amything' makes a lot of sense!

[@maxflight777]

@@StephenLawrence01he’s ignorant isn’t he ? I met him once.. he and Mindy were chain smoking !

[@topmandog1]

flashes only go on for a small bit

[@LILACJENNIFER]

Good, but that big chap in blue really likes to interrupt Richard to my great annoyance.

[@Flatmat]

Subaru restoration should be your bread and butter 😜

[@logtothebase2]

Good idea he has a name on his desk so he doesn't forget it, that one gets me all the time.

[@TheSeoras]

Carbon footprint ! “ bollocks”

[@GrapevineMediaStudios]

Camera Flash, very of putting. No Flashing Light Warning.

[@mr.cantsay]

Put pillows on the ceiling.

[@belkeddashamdi3887]

But the car shows disappeared now, workshop isn't for testing cars, we want something to restart the eboladrome circuit for example

[@MatthewSimpson2006]

Interesting pod cast. I understand there is an obvious focus on cars here. But if we are talking about a greener future, the best answer for getting round modern cities (particularly in the UK) isnt a car regardless of what powers it, its improved public transport. I am a bigger lover of driving and having a nice car, but even I have to admit that the commute into any of our major towns or cities isnt a driving pleasure. Hydrogen is definitely something with a future, but needs more investment. Synethetic fuels though have pretty much run their course. The problem is one of energy efficiency. It takes a HUGE amount of energy to produce synthetic fuel. So much so that it will always be cheaper to just put that in a battery. Some of the companies working on it were hopeful that with scale they could potentially get it down to between £20 and £30 a gallon. synethetic fuels will never be more than a niche.

[@BlackLines]

The thing is we have the ability to have excellent public transport services even with fossil-fuel powered vehicles but we don't. Making them all EVs or hydrogen-powered won't change that one bit. We're limited by mismanagement within local authorities and cost savings which translates to poor rural services. You can go on about brilliant public services all day but if I need to wait 2 hours for a bus to get into town from my local village, then maybe 2 hours (if I'm lucky) to get back once I've done my tasks, then I'm afraid I'm going to take the car every single time. Case in point: I have a bus stop literally outside the boundary of my property. There's a bus at 8am and 10am, then the return directions at 4pm and 6pm. If I have a doctors appointment at 2pm, I will get the 10am bus into town then have a four hour wait. Not happening.

[@MatthewSimpson2006]

@@BlackLines I agree. The point I was making was that we need investment in public transport as well. And we have needed it for decades. For most people, a car is simply their transportation solution, and I know a lot of people who would happily get rid of their car if they could. A lot of people actually dont enjoy or like driving. My wife for example absolutely hates driving, its a necessary evil to get to work, and if there was any other viable alternative shed sell her car tomorrow. Rural life is always going to be harder to service with public transport, but the reality is it doesnt work inside most big cities either. I live 5 minutes walk to a mainline station into my nearest city (manchester), and yet choose to drive into the office because its cheaper, quicker and more reliable.

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

what are your thoughts on the Ferrari Purosangue

[@TinPanAlleh]

48:50

[@sladehelicoptersgaming3148]

Make do and mend is far better for the environment than a new car every three years .

[@Taylor___]

I think the futre of the car is three things. 1) Hydrogen for long commutes, lorries, planes and boats, 2) electric for town use and those who can charge at home and 3) sustainable fuel running older cars. We've not invested enough into hydrogen yet because companies are making far too much money selling fuel still and now lithium ion batteries. Solid state batteries will change things for sure but the infrastructure for charging just isn't there and the big petrol companies have no incentive to do it. The moment somebody comes along and provides a family hatch back EV with a range of 600 miles at no more than 20K and charges convenietly at home in a few hours, that'll get people into electric. At the moment they are double the price, they depreciate like a stone and they are massively inconvenient because the charging infrastructure isn't there. Electric cars don't need to do 0-60 in sub 2 seconds, they need to do 60mph in under 10 seconds and have a top speed of 120mph at the most but most importantly is a range that matches economical fuel powered cars or betters it for the same price.

[@KieranFuller17]

HAMMOND!

[@ShaunRoberts1]

👍👍👍

[@anthonyhawkins9239]

An conversation

[@nigelbond4056]

Richard talks a good talk but 6 months ago I contacted TSC to renovate my dad’s old XJ6 series 1 and they didn’t come back to me. Not a good way to run a business.

[@ism671]

Presenters are definitely tools...

[@jeremyparsons5379]

Honestly who’s the Pratt with the camera? FFS

[@maximus2536]

Your questions were really not upto par, a lot of the things you guys asked could have been researched in 1 hour on just simple youtube videos or past interviews. Please work harder to prepare for interviews.

[@ashystyle]

So only Hammond owns Drivetribe or is it James and May as well?

[@tommoger]

Great interview. Very wrong about the future of fuel though. So much misinformation. EVs are the only way.

[@tillyfoxtrotter]

Not buying the RS pitch. Soz - this is a reboot of a failed spoof biz.

[@volvogt21]

He's not going to be happy when I iron out the last few bugs in my teleporting machine.

[@dukeallen432]

Get captain slow into rehab.

[@jeffhampton130]

Yes, I saw Jason Plato once at the filling station, Oxford, Sainsbury’s Ring Road. You could see before, around the time that Tiff left fifth gear that when he was sitting beside Tiff in a car and being ‘ scared ‘ he seemed actually very jealous of Tiff ( as to his abilities etc ) calling him “ old man “ etc. i.e. grasping at straws and would imagine that he was intrinsic in the split perceiving a threat to his future television career. Not impressed, Tiff is a good boy. I know Hammond, he says that ‘ they’re all good friends ‘ now, but that’s quite awhile for Hammond and Tiff I would not think so sure.

[@Kurlach]

Why in gods name are they sat there with laptops perched on their lap? It’s weird and stilted. As others have pointed out the photographer is intrusive and unnecessary. It all feels very directionless.

[@silversteel6312]

Age appropriate trainers anyone👀 🍮

[@k13ehr]

Isn't it great to see three professionals at work, or it would be nice to, what a rubbish setup. While Richard is in charge it'll NEVER make any money as he's always spending it, even his odd wife knows that much, his advisor knows that and tells him, but he is out of his depth (not a short joke) and his partner is no business man either, the only possible way for this business to succeed is for him to step down and stay away and put in a very experienced manager, and get the staff to stop seeing it as a hobby. Having said that I have plenty of time for Hammond & May, but none for the Oaf that is Clarkson, excepting his farming show which he is usually less of a Oaf. Why is that photographer constantly taking pictures on a none changing scene?

[@martinneeds1734]

Hammond's 'got the talk' but zero content ! 😟😟😒😒

[@barneyrubble9309]

When the insurance business prices people out of their classic cars , your business will be nothing but a battery exchange shop.

[@getawayhs2856]

You do know classic car insurance is really cheap don't you? £200 for my Daimler Double-Six (0 no claims needed either)

[@peterbustin2683]

Yawnzzzz.

[@Paulcalverley]

The contest Boosting from Richard about what he has bought and all the cars and bikes he has is sickening.

[@williamhenry1893]

Some people collect stamps, I collect musical instruments, Most of Hammond’s cars aren’t even expensive, they’re of historical interest. I’m glad he doesn’t pay attention to people who sit in judgment of others and just lives his own life.

[@Paulcalverley]

Yeah but you are not on TV constantly Boosting about it when there is people struggling to make ends meet. @@williamhenry1893

[@missogyny4921]

Richard, I do wish you would stop blathering on about ‘the environment’ and similar tosh. Recognise that it stems from living in a house full of women, who love this new religion.

[@topmandog1]

im sure you realise even Jeremy and james talk about the enviroment now, and hes talking about synthetic petrol, which is literally the only way we are going to keep petrol cars on the road in 20 years time

[@markwilliams5654]

Clueless it's to funny

[@alterglobo]

"... a community, a sense of place for like-minded people ..." for pale skinned people, conveniently excluding slightly differently-looking people. I used to LOVE, ADORE Top Gear until 2002, even after that, even the presenters, until I realised they saw people like me as something "different".

[@RichardHowells1234]

Hemp cars hemp ethanol hemp batteries hemp superconductors hemp supercapacitors Hallelujah ✅️ Aģape 😘

[@jmos96]

The definition of boring. Sad…

[@Саня01-ц2л]

Русские живут в Лондоне или в Великобритании 🤔? Много переезжают жить к вам из России 🇷🇺?

[@labbo5591]

In the past I loved myself, at present I love myself and in the future I will still love myself.🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@gruunt4064]

Hammond has hair only a local radio disc jockey could own

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

What are your thoughts on the Ferrari Purosangue

[@michaelschneider-]

+1 .. Stupid, like all SUV's

[@triedproven9908]

Doesn't matter... can't afford.

[@wadehampton4499]

Great video and conversation and Richard is entertaining and amusing as always but the camera flashes, shadows and stuff being dropped on the lower left made it look quite amateurish, come on Autocar, you can do better than this !

[@Cloxxki]

Hammond's greatest talent may be following his heart and acting on intuition. The way he brought the lads fish and chips, refused to lose his fav car shop and put his money where his heart was. And he knew it could be combined with his passion for broadcating. It's an utter triumph if you think of it. This kind of thing falls into everyone's laps, but we don't see it or fail to say YES to these slightest of opportunities.

[@banzai385]

Car restoration is a financial nightmare, getting skilled staff, charging a sensible hourly rate ,sourcing parts etc ,