To be honest, I enjoyed the NEWS immensely. I can understand that the segment might have not been the most enjoyable to produce or other wise support but I found the interaction of the 3 stars very entertaining and this endeared them personally to me all the more.
Couldn't agree more. The News was easily my favourite part of the show for exactly the reason you said - watching the 3 lads interact. I could easily watch an entire hour long show of them doing that.
I have to agree as well. Now and again I'll put on RUclips compilation videos of Top Gear news where it'll just be spliced together news sections from a whole series. They're great because you can also just listen to them while doing something else, like driving.
Of course, the News have always been amazing. A small talk show with three blokes who can put up great entertainment, it was perfect. Now listening to 500 quid deals off of some irrelevant cars, of course, not so interesting.
When I watched it as a kid, news segment was least favourite to me... Now after billion rewatching and me getting bit older I absolutely love it! I also love it that I did not watch it that closely all those years ago so I absolutely adored wathcing news again
I mean here we are, 10, 15 years later watching basically the same thing just with the lads on the other side of the camera. Top Gear invented the Video Podcast before the iPod!
This channel is going from strength to strength! Bravo Ben and the team! Rich and Jim were fantastic guests. Great to here the stories from the old top gear days. I could listen to the three of you for hours. Magic!
What a lovely way to spend 3/4 of an hour. So glad you’re doing this Ben, amazing to see you doing your own thing, could listen to you and the chaps talk cars all day. X
I love how you can hear the recy stories and see how they have become bits in the show. The steering clear of places, the gold teeth and the cop cars. Amazing interview for fans!
Great work Ben and team this was great 😂 the story of May getting lost on a roundabout and following a random Range Rover is hilarious. You must have so much behind the scenes insights, would love to know more
Its good to see three clearly good mates with nostalgic history, fondly discussing nostalgic history, solidly good and hume interview with genuinely interesting nuggets of "wow i never knew that"
The news was always a hit or a miss, either hilarious or extremely boring. Not a podcast guy but this was super fun to watch and listen to. Wish all the best to Ben and the lads.
28:40 to 29:30 was the hardest I’ve laughed in years, the way you guys talk about Top Gear from the 80s and 90s, I had that same experience but with Top Gear in the 2000s and 2010s, all the insights from this were extremely compelling and I would love to hear more
It's weird about the news because I loved the news and I thought everyone did. So many legendary jokes and moments there. I enjoyed the news more than most of the car reviews and other segments.
Ben talking about meeting Michael Schumacher is sort of unreal, for me as a kid and beyond that the Stig was the ultimate racing driver. Obviously it makes complete sense that he'd have Schumacher as a hero, still very unreal and fascinating to hear about!
Very entertaining in a relaxing way. I sometimes listen to Smith and Sniff Podcast. Also Collecting Cars and Behind the Glass. The Smoking Tyre is good too. I saw you last year for the EV company that’s high performance like the one I taking over Bugatti: Mattee Rimac. You could review new performance cars for your channel. Also the he inherent difference between front; rear wheel and AWD cars and how they behave at speed in a track and how this influences how they do legally on a main road, or in an emergency situation like a skid.
Loved it. Entertaining and and fun to watch, thanks Ben. The discomfort when asked about Jeremy 😂 Looking forward to the next and hopefully many more. Awesome work.
Loved this episode. Having watched all of the early UK top gear episodes with Clarkson multiple times this video I was eating like candy, Couldn't get enough of it looking forward to the next one
A fantastic podcast!!! I could listen to you three chewing the fat for hours on end. Fantastic times, when Top Gear was at its peak, a fascinating insight in to the world of the Stig & Co. Probably the golden age of televised motor entertainment, now only matched by superb YT episodes, presented by yourselves.
Thanks for this great video, I love to listen to all the stories behind Top Gear and from people involved with it. Those bits about Mr Wilman especially, what a mysterious and fascinating persona he is - the scheming mastermind himself. No wonder Top Gear had been such a success under his rule (and still is under a different name). Would love to see Wilman on this podcast if you manage!
This is brilliant i thought it would possibly be terrible! - i loved top gear know all the episodes and characters you were talking about ! it was so eye opening funny , nostalgic, fresh , very entertaining - loved it- Please do more !! Winners superb!
I have a picture of myself with a green Ferrari station wagon (family car basically) in Goodwood in 2001. :) I think there were just a few of them produced.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and I have just got Richard's audiobook which I suspect is going to be an excellent listen. I saw he also has another Top Gear related book 'Epic Failures' so I'll be getting that as well if Bombshell is good. Count me a new subscriber Ben.
@@samuelgarrod8327 Hi Sam. I have listened to the above books now, and they were thoroughly enjoyable, although a lot of the stories were same as we heard in these videos, I am not sure how to answer your 'Where have you been' question, but I'll gladly tell you if you could give me some context. I have some motoring stories that would make even Richard's ears burn. 😀
What a gentleman. Im glad you were the Stig. Listening to your stuff driving the Tasmania in a 650 hp RRS was one of the best times. Thankyou. Craig and Denise,
To be honest, I enjoyed the NEWS immensely. I can understand that the segment might have not been the most enjoyable to produce or other wise support but I found the interaction of the 3 stars very entertaining and this endeared them personally to me all the more.
Couldn't agree more. The News was easily my favourite part of the show for exactly the reason you said - watching the 3 lads interact. I could easily watch an entire hour long show of them doing that.
I have to agree as well. Now and again I'll put on RUclips compilation videos of Top Gear news where it'll just be spliced together news sections from a whole series. They're great because you can also just listen to them while doing something else, like driving.
Of course, the News have always been amazing. A small talk show with three blokes who can put up great entertainment, it was perfect. Now listening to 500 quid deals off of some irrelevant cars, of course, not so interesting.
When I watched it as a kid, news segment was least favourite to me... Now after billion rewatching and me getting bit older I absolutely love it! I also love it that I did not watch it that closely all those years ago so I absolutely adored wathcing news again
I mean here we are, 10, 15 years later watching basically the same thing just with the lads on the other side of the camera. Top Gear invented the Video Podcast before the iPod!
This channel is going from strength to strength! Bravo Ben and the team! Rich and Jim were fantastic guests. Great to here the stories from the old top gear days. I could listen to the three of you for hours. Magic!
Thank you, yeah great people and stuff i’ve never heard - loved their stories
Honestly if you did an on going podcast of behind the scenes top gear stories I'd watch every one!
This had more chemistry than the current top gear
They did well not to freeze it was baltic in that hangar! 🥶
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I realy like this episode. And get to know wath realy hapend. I beg for More like this! Thanks guys. 😎👍
A small patch of wet gravel has more chemistry than current top gear.
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Quality ❤ 😊
What a lovely way to spend 3/4 of an hour. So glad you’re doing this Ben, amazing to see you doing your own thing, could listen to you and the chaps talk cars all day. X
I love how you can hear the recy stories and see how they have become bits in the show. The steering clear of places, the gold teeth and the cop cars. Amazing interview for fans!
Superb video Ben. The standard and quality of this channel is being raised with every video, can’t wait to see what’s to come!
This is great, 3 blokes talking about cars and no one moaning.
I think they moan a bit in the next one - stay tuned 😂
@@BenCollinsDrivesI will definitely tune in.
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Some say ..... That Stig can do everything
Another great video from Ben and I just start watching 😂
All we know is that he is called Ben.
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Great work Ben and team this was great 😂 the story of May getting lost on a roundabout and following a random Range Rover is hilarious. You must have so much behind the scenes insights, would love to know more
Huge fan of Richard’s. This will be a good one.
He’s a bright chap, hides it well
Enjoyed that. Love porters knowledge of cars. I bet he can still remember all the phone numbers of his childhood friends
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Its good to see three clearly good mates with nostalgic history, fondly discussing nostalgic history, solidly good and hume interview with genuinely interesting nuggets of "wow i never knew that"
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The news was always a hit or a miss, either hilarious or extremely boring. Not a podcast guy but this was super fun to watch and listen to. Wish all the best to Ben and the lads.
28:40 to 29:30 was the hardest I’ve laughed in years, the way you guys talk about Top Gear from the 80s and 90s, I had that same experience but with Top Gear in the 2000s and 2010s, all the insights from this were extremely compelling and I would love to hear more
It's weird about the news because I loved the news and I thought everyone did. So many legendary jokes and moments there. I enjoyed the news more than most of the car reviews and other segments.
34:22 wow Christian just standing there next to The Stig and smiling 😁
Brilliant Ben thank you.
Well done,Ben! Looking forward to Part 2 and more stories!
Ben talking about meeting Michael Schumacher is sort of unreal, for me as a kid and beyond that the Stig was the ultimate racing driver. Obviously it makes complete sense that he'd have Schumacher as a hero, still very unreal and fascinating to hear about!
Great to hear some of the stories. What a journey it has been.
The well of material runs deep with these gents, brilliant 😊
Brilliant video! Great guests and insight into the good ole TG. Thank you.
And that's why Top gear was brilliant, amazing trio behind the scenes.
Very entertaining in a relaxing way.
I sometimes listen to Smith and Sniff Podcast.
Also Collecting Cars and Behind the Glass.
The Smoking Tyre is good too.
I saw you last year for the EV company that’s high performance like the one I taking over Bugatti:
Mattee Rimac.
You could review new performance cars for your channel.
Also the he inherent difference between front; rear wheel and AWD cars and how they behave at speed in a track and how this influences how they do legally on a main road, or in an emergency situation like a skid.
Yes all good peeps - glad you enjoyed this one and more to follow
Excellent stories. Could have listened to them all day!
Utterly brilliant, I could listen to this all day, thanks
Loved it. Entertaining and and fun to watch, thanks Ben.
The discomfort when asked about Jeremy 😂
Looking forward to the next and hopefully many more.
Awesome work.
Your conclusion is absolutely 100% spot on!
Awesome to see 3 of the main people responsible for the most entertaining days od our youth... Thank you very much Ben ❤🚘
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What a great behind the scenes conversation between 3 inside baseball members of the TG team
This was awesome. Cannot wait for next part
So hyped there's gonna be another part, really enjoyed that.
I loved this interview! Thank you for posting!! Look forward to part 2 👍🏻
Really entertaining and a great listen. Well done Ben, another hit mate. Great work. Oh and Porsche being like hrt 😅 quality
You guys should do this again. Fun to watch, and looking forward to the next segment.
Hey Ben, awsome episode. You can do a 1000 of these, and i will gladly watch them all, love the stories from old Top Gear :)
Great content and presentation. Love this channel. 🇦🇺 😊
Great stuff, Ben. Looking forward to part two...and that's Porter's book bought!
This is one of the best car videos I have seen , great show guys.
I'd watch you talk with Top Gear crew members for years on end Ben! Please continue to make more if the opportunities arise!
Amazing interview. Love hearing from old top gear and grand tour staff. Would love if Andy Wilman came around
Well done Ben, good choice of guests, Richard is always good mileage and Jim was diamond.
Looking forward to part 2.....
Ben, your very humble approach is admirable!
Fantastic episode! Loved every minute of it.
Brilliant move Ben, quality content. Loved it
Can't wait for the next one, nice job Ben 👍
Richard could provide an 80's Cyberman voice!
Loved that chat. Should be twice as long.
Loved this episode. Having watched all of the early UK top gear episodes with Clarkson multiple times this video I was eating like candy, Couldn't get enough of it looking forward to the next one
This is an excellent idea for a podcast. I can't wait for more of this. Thanks, Ben! Well done!
Great stuff, very interesting to hear from these chaps. Could listen to them talk about tales from Top Gear for several hours!
The US special was one of the funniest, from start to end.
thanks, grt interview..
Thank you and I love this!
Surely you've already determined why it won't work, but trunk mounted rad?
A fantastic podcast!!! I could listen to you three chewing the fat for hours on end. Fantastic times, when Top Gear was at its peak, a fascinating insight in to the world of the Stig & Co. Probably the golden age of televised motor entertainment, now only matched by superb YT episodes, presented by yourselves.
What?! For real? You were on a podcast and RUclips all this time?!
Damn that made me happy!
Poscast is new & evolving ! Loving the RUclips - Stig unleashed!!
31:41 that picture of Vettel is well chosen 😂
Really enjoyed that, a bit like a pub chat where people let stuff slip that they probably shouldn't! 👊😂
Awesome. Great show
Thanks for this great video, I love to listen to all the stories behind Top Gear and from people involved with it. Those bits about Mr Wilman especially, what a mysterious and fascinating persona he is - the scheming mastermind himself. No wonder Top Gear had been such a success under his rule (and still is under a different name). Would love to see Wilman on this podcast if you manage!
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Yeah, right, he was a liability to Top Gear in its later stages, and it became worse under The Grand Tour, with all their staged middle finger shit.
Bloody brilliant!
John Bentley is such a lovely Man , I took him a Press Car once in Birmingham .. Bloody nice bloke 😁😁
The legend
Stockroom sorting. Love it
This is brilliant i thought it would possibly be terrible! - i loved top gear know all the episodes and characters you were talking about ! it was so eye opening funny , nostalgic,
fresh , very entertaining - loved it- Please do more !! Winners superb!
Awesome interview, really interesting and fun!
Great interview and really enjoyed it.
so much valueable info about top gear, great vid
ben please upload future episodes in 1080p!! These are great
Looking forward to more of these!!
The best channel on RUclips
I have a picture of myself with a green Ferrari station wagon (family car basically) in Goodwood in 2001. :) I think there were just a few of them produced.
Rich (AKA Sniff petrol and smith and sniff) is the best guy 👌 always good on a podcast and infront of a camera
Ah yes, Thursday evenings on BBC - Top gear, Top of the Pops and Red Dwarf! Brilliant.
I think you boys should should arrange another meet up and get another show planned between you !! Be a huge hit I would imagine:)
Great channel Ben
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and I have just got Richard's audiobook which I suspect is going to be an excellent listen. I saw he also has another Top Gear related book 'Epic Failures' so I'll be getting that as well if Bombshell is good. Count me a new subscriber Ben.
Bombshell is brilliant but I have to say and I'm not having a go at you but where have you been? Porters column in EVO is always worth a read too.👊
@@samuelgarrod8327 Hi Sam. I have listened to the above books now, and they were thoroughly enjoyable, although a lot of the stories were same as we heard in these videos, I am not sure how to answer your 'Where have you been' question, but I'll gladly tell you if you could give me some context. I have some motoring stories that would make even Richard's ears burn. 😀
@@samuelgarrod8327 I think I might have worked out what you are asking. I lived in the UK till moving to New Zealand 20 years ago.
Brilliant video. Thanks
What a gentleman. Im glad you were the Stig. Listening to your stuff driving the Tasmania in a 650 hp RRS was one of the best times. Thankyou. Craig and Denise,
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24:03 OG Robot Stig story 😂
For a second i thought the chairs were carbon fiber because of the lighting. Now i think that's actually a great idea
I have absolutely pissed myself laughing the whole way through this. More please Ben
Oh, this is very good!!
Great stuff
Love the piss takin with Ben.😂 good times
Do more of this Ben love it
Keep doing these, brilliant ❤
This is such entertaining stuff Ben, Thankyou! Would absolutely love to spend an hour in a room talking shit with you.
Great fun. You REALLY need to rejig the sound levels between speakers. The differences in perceived volume are very irritating. Sub'd.
We miss the boys! I can’t find a way to fill that top gear shaped hole in my heart.. like this tho
My cousin Richard Cole was floor manager for a very brief period!!!
the Schumacher story at 29:58 ... lost my mind at how sharp he was about racing
Put Richard Porter in anything and it immediately improves.
Great interview Ben, very interesting stuff, another thing you’re good at FFS!
i was really keen to some proper meaty content on youtube, great concept Ben!
I can imagine Jeremy saying “He’s called the gimp” 😂
Loved it!!!
The pilot episode of Top Gear needs to be shown.
There's not even any photos available of the initial studio
@@PointNemo9 there's pictures available on the Internet.
'As the train moved into Stoke-On-Trent I had to open a window and be sick'. Yep, Stoke will do that to you.
Love it!
Really, really good!