The presenter talks the latest season of 'Workshop', the future of electric cares, and why 'Top Gear' wasn't what you think it was
The presenter talks the latest season of ‘Workshop’, the future of electric cares, and why ‘Top Gear’ wasn’t what you think it was, before I get a chance to mention it. But – as Discovery+ begins streaming a third series of his classic car restoration series“We are entering the era of The Reinvention of the Car.
But gradually, as that cheeky banter started to veer too often into something more toxic – Clarkson joked about Hitler, about murdering prostitutes, But he acknowledges that motoring journalism generally can exude that vibe, “and our thing was to push against that. We always said you don’t have to be a car nerd to watch the show because we do that for you.”
He dials up his big kid: “I chatted to so many young people at CarFest and Goodwood this summer.” He notes they were concerned about climate change but he argues: “It’s the fuel that’s the problem. The internal combustion engine has never polluted anything.” Born the eldest of three boys in 1969, Solihull and raised in North Yorkshire, Hammond tells me that motoring was always “in the blood”. His mother’s father was a cabinet-maker turned coach builder. But he only recently realised he can date his passion for both broadcasting and vintage cars back to a trip he took to visit his father’s parents in Weston-super-Mare when he was around five.