Will an electrified future carry an finish to the automotive fanatic neighborhood? Not in response to Richard Hammond.

The Prime Gear host’s ideas come from a current video posted on the Extra Drivetribe YouTube channel. It was a follow-up clip recorded after a day on the monitor, pitting him in opposition to his daughter Izzy in her modified Mini. Studying questions from followers while sitting of their respective vehicles (Richard had his modded Subaru from The Grand Tour for the event), Izzy requested a correctly necessary query from RodWhitney8236. How will the youthful technology, going through electrification, site visitors, and a excessive cost-of-living, keep fanatical and captivated with vehicles?

“We’ll by no means lose the fervour for vehicles,” he mentioned with out hesitation.

We’re guessing Richard has tackled this query earlier than, as a result of he pressed ahead with a minute-long response with out a lot as taking a breath. The notably attention-grabbing bit comes towards the top, when he says this:

“The push for electrification goes to be a part of the story. We now have to decarbonize, we now have to cease burning fossil fuels, digging it up and destroying the planet or there will likely be nowhere to drive our vehicles on. However these solutions are already right here. Electrification goes to enhance and get higher. Artificial fuels are already right here; that may allow us to maintain the 1.4 billion vehicles presently on the street…on the street. In perpetuity.”

It is an impressed speech contemplating their dialogue takes place in race-prepped vehicles at a monitor. Izzy labored on her Mini as a part of Drivetribe’s ongoing YouTube content material, even spending time with The Grand Tour’s former racing driver Abbie Eaton to get probably the most out of its monitor upgrades. Richard is clearly no stranger to going quick (or the other way up, sorry Hammond) and we have seen his WRX identified affectionately as Martin in a number of Drivetribe clips. The daddy-daughter duo love their combustion vehicles, however neither is anxious about that keenness going away.

It is a distinction to Hammond’s former Prime Gear and The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson, who proclaimed that trendy vehicles are “all shit” after watching The Grand Tour’s closing episode at a non-public celebration in Oxfordshire.

“Don’t fear for a second, mentioned Richard, ending his reply to the query Izzy shared. “It ain’t going away. This … that is eternally.”