Richard Hammond drives his 530bhp Grand Tour Subaru for the first time - And it's incredible! 

Check out the outtakes from the first drive: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bn_cICkpbWg.htmlsi=u3PMUHUBWg9mOodK

THIS IS WHAT THIS CHANNEL SHOULD BE. It brings back the Top Gear magic. Just 20-30 minutes of chilling with Jeremy, Richard or Captain slow in literally anything. It could be a shopping trolley. Please please please more of this ❤❤❤

This is literally like watching a Top Gear road test, the framing, the pacing, the scripting, the music. We NEED more of these! James could do his Alpine properly, Jeremy could do his GTV6 properly, and Hammond can do more of his mad cars! EXCELLENTLY put together!!!

As a 20+ year owner of an STI, who has thought about selling it a dozen times along the way... this motivates me to keep it another 20 years. Iconic!

Just seeing Hammond in a car talking about it the way he does, his analogies, the words, the adjectives used to describe the feeling of this car, it really brings back the sheer nostalgia and joy of watching the Top Gear of old. Appreciate DriveTribe for bringing us this.

13 yrs and 3 motors later, I still look back when I walk away.

This video is my childhood watching the old show, 20s with the Grand Tour and now 30s. Properly happy for Hammond, loving the wholesome nature, and the laughs obviously!

the sound of this car makes me feel like i've died and gone to heaven 🥹

More of this please. He’s spot on that not everybody gets it, and for some (most?) a car is just a transportation appliance. But for those of us who do, times like these behind the wheel are part of what makes life worth living. Many thanks, Richard.

"We are going to have a lot of fun together. A lot." Brought a tear to my eye. That's the kind of passion we have as enthusiasts. You don't go places in your car. You and your car go places together. I am so glad you are out enjoying time with Martin. I am sure Martin is too.

Amazing to see him drive this again

Richard if you READ THIS, congratulations you’ve just cemented your legacy as the greatest car reviewer of all time, in perhaps one of the greatest legendary cars of all time.. superb video, felt like peak top gear review.. excellent.. this is what we want Richard ! Your a living legend!

What an absolutely immersive drive, along with the commentary of one of the 3 most important car people on earth. Hammond's way with words is just unreal.

Every STI owner has a LOT of fun always not just Richard 🙃

I grew up watching Richard, but now I’m older I can appreciate how good he actually is with words. He does such a good job of explaining how something feels in a precise, but poetic way. When he said “and I suspect you are too” in regard to being the type of person to want a car to be cartoonish, you actually feel like he’s involving YOU, not just speaking about himself and how it feels to him. As an audience we WANT WANT WANT this type of content. Please keep doing stuff like this💙💙

I am always so impressed by Hammond's effortless delivery. He delivered that passionate monolog from start to finish and it came out like a beautifully scripted drama but it felt anything but scripted. Hammond is a master of presentation - best in the trio (and this coming from an engineer whose a James May fan). I just can't get enough of Hammond's presentations. So eloquent, so graceful and always passionate. Bravo, dude!

I've fallen in love with how Hammond review cars. Again. I love the silly Top Gear we had but we all forgot why the trio love cars and how good they can express their emotions and connections with cars. That was a brilliant review! MORE PLEASE and a big thank you!

This video got me in my feelings, I just lost my project car that I had put a lot of time into, that made me feel alive when I drove it (someone hit me totaling the car). It makes me happy to see hamster drive a car that makes him smile.

Kinda brought a tear to my eye this did. Was like watching TopGear again, the camera angles, the analogies of the car, the music choice and the reactions Richard makes. All we want is more videos like this with the Trio before they retire for good 🔥🙏

Towards the end of the video I felt like I was watching an episode of the old top gear again with the music, charisma and everything it almost brought a tear to my eye. Miss those days

Loved that! The car, the style, the cinematography and a classic piece of Hammond.

After all these years watching these guys I actually feel connected Hammond feels like my long distance uncle or something lol its almost magic when u put him in front of a camera

This has to be one of Richard's best pieces to camera in a long time. He defintely needs to get back into car reviews again. Such a talent with words.

How can Richard be the best car reviewer I have ever seen, what's it been 20+ years since peak Top Gear and still Richard is the GOAT, nobody comes close... emotion, connection to the audience, so compelling you cant stop watching, draws your undivided attention.. amazing work every time.

I love Subarus. I've had such a hard time trying to convert my feelings into words, but Hammond perfectly nails the feeling of driving a Subaru, no other car can compare the feeling of one.

Gorgeous car, brilliantly improved.

This just took me back 10+ years to Sunday night top gear - thank you

Genuinely shed a tear - lovely car so happy you kept it! Gives me memories watching early Top Gear growing up, thank you Richard

That exhaust is probably one of the nicest sounding ones I've ever heard on an Impreza, the whole thing just looks and sounds like a true rally car. Good job guys, keep this sort of thing up!

My daily commuter car is my beloved STI. It's impossible for me to start it up without a silly grin. Nothing fixes a tough day at the office quite like walking out to the parking lot and driving it home. And yours is just about the most perfect build I've ever seen. Please make some more videos with it.

So good to see he Hammond hasn't lost the ability to make you feel emotional towards a car, bringing that feeling to me sitting on the other side of the screen but feeling like I'm sitting there with him enjoying every second top video 👏👏

The genuine heart to heart he gives us a peak at between him and the car is really something special and what made top gear and the grand tour so special.

I’ve had my Hawkeye for just over a year, done a considerable amount of miles in that time and there isn’t a day where it doesn’t make me smile! Awesome cars, there’s nothing quite like it ❤️

This video personaly touched my feelings, seeing a man like Richard Hammond a man that made my whole childhood awesome seeing in my childhood dream car smiling and loving it, it just hits me different. It got me emotional

there is something about men and cars, the two go so well with each other..Hammond feels that special connection with that car and the same goes for every dude on the gas pedal...whether you hate a car or love a car, its still amazing getting behind a wheel and going or a spin, it feels so mutual, it does what you do and takes you where you want, thats why we put so much cares fore cars, we just feel a thrill behind a wheel.

This felt so natural that I was waiting for an applause and a cut back to either a tent or a BBC studio

Watching this with Richard Hammond really felt like old times again. Just back to basics car reviews from one of the best automotive presenters in the modern era. Really enjoyed watching this and would love to see a lot more of this style. Well done!

nothing beats a Subaru and the feeling you get driving one

Well done for not crashing Hammond :)

This review really took me back to the old Top Gear days, More of this please!!

Driving an STI is truly a phenomenal experience, glad to see him enjoying it! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Georgous road and amazing backdrop and my God what a machine! I love the fact its pouring with rain but you can still drive at some speed. To see the kid, joy and emotion in Richards face is priceless! Its authentic and genuine reaction. Presenting this car brings it all out and that is one of the great 4cyl car of all time. In the world of qtr mile runs, fastest acceleration, EV's or power you can't really safely use in the real world this is a breath of fresh air. Great video. Enjoy and wishing a safe and fun year for the DriveTribe Team!

I'm glad it's up to your expectations Richard😊

Absolutely epic video. One of the best on Drivetribe. Proper emotional and very gripping. More of this please!

This review was so good and took me so far back into time that I thought it was going to cut back into a studio, with Jeremy wondering how fast it goes around a certain track 😂

The last 2 minutes and 30 seconds is why I drive a modified 2004 subaru sti no matter how much pain it may cause me when I'm not in the seat

Subaru + Hammond combo is unbeatable. Look at the Africa special from 2013. Says it all And I’m an Evo guy

My daily is a 500hp F80 M3 but my 05 STi gives me chills every time i take it out for a Sunday drive. Such a drivers car, no electrical gimmicks, no traction control, pure drivers car.

I loved this episode! This almost felt like watching Old TG back in the day, the production was wonderful. Well Done DT!

I'm sure that's the B4560 road Llangynidr, awesome road 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

please continue to review your cars and future awesome cars... it really is a joy to see you talk about cars

Good for you Hammond, good for you. This video out of every episode of top gear and the grand tour hit me harder in the heart for some reason. A lot of depth to this video that not all may see. This is what it’s all about.

Best Hammond video in a long time. Sums up exactly why I love my STI, character. It’s not particularly fast but it’s about the feel and sounds. More videos like this please.

Hamster is the best!! This is what we’ve been waiting for!!! Excellent work Richard!👏👏👏Great test Drive!!

Hammonds words, the videography and the style in which it was all put together gave me goose bumps and a big grin on my face. Well done this is the content we want!

I own a Subaru Impreza gc8 that has been completely restored. It was with it that I learned to drive fast . It belonged to my father who passed away 6 months ago. I don't think I'll ever sell it. Welcome to the Subie club Richard. Happy New Year.

Your vids keep getting better and more slick, this is top tier content and much appreciated. I am inexplicably happy for Hammond that he's got Martin back, better then ever.

As if he's just pushing the limits of that car and heel-toeing. Never seen him do that and I've been watching him all my life. He's actually a certified driver 👏

Nostalgia. This brought me back. Amazing to see him behind the wheel of the Subaru Impreza WRX STI.

This has TG nostalgia. It brings about a sensation of the joy that Hammond has with cars, with presenting. Remembering how Hammond talked about Sabine Schmitz in the TG tribute video, the last few seconds of that video he says, and I quote: “ 'You watch those films with her in again and just watch her smile. Watch her expressions when she was driving right on the ragged edge, even in those moments she was happy to give in to the joy of it.” Watch Richard’s face in this video. Watch the joy in his face, the passion in his voice and body language. You can’t fake that. And for every video he alone, or with the other two should decide to make, it will bring smiles to our faces to. Gotta love it :D

At time: 2:18 he does a heal toe shift that uses the fact that front breaks always engage first. So it shifts more power to the rear differential to tweak performance. That's brilliant, and I have done that before and never knew it was an actual thing! Wow, learn something new about myself all the time these days! Side note: really hard teaching some people how to drive a stick. And I hate how there are zero manual transmission cars being produced for us. I don't want to live in a population where no one is smart enough or well rounded enough to drive a standard transmission.

This was amazing to watch, Genuinely incredible to see the impreza brought back to life and reunited with Hammond 🙏

This is the best video I have ever watched on RU-vid 😍 Hammond face is just a look of pure joy the entire time, absolutely love this!

Drivetribe has just gone up a level, more like this please! 👌

These videos literally make my day 🥰

2 decades ago i remember hammond talking about getting the mother of all imprezas, and now he does, great to see, fast happy hamster

love Hammond, love what you guys at drivetribe are doing to keep the epicness from the grand tour and top gear series, incredible work to put this much emotion into me from such a simple video, well done

I believe Hammond is one of the most passionate car reviewers (alongside clarkson too). Great to see you behind the wheel like this again 🙂

Trust Hammond to put soul into a video every time he happens to be in a driver's seat. Can't get enough of such great videos.

This is possibly the greatest thing ever captured on camera. Great review of a mega car - I was lucky enough to own a Blob STI years ago, and since I got rid of it 9 years I've thought about little else except buying another, but kids and life keep getting in the way. This at least lets me enjoy the boxer burble vicariously until I buy another - much more of this please!

Bravo 👏 👏 Richard Bravo 👏 , i just new this side of you was alive and well and watching this brought a tear to this 42 yr old man. You have been a major part of my lifes happiness for more than twenty years and i thank you. There will never be another trio with such impact in the automotive entertainment industry or reality based infotainment for that matter. Todays generation really missed out being able to grow up with Hammond, May and Clarkson and their weekly trips to all of their fans tv sets for 20+ yrs of pure pleasure and knowledgeable comedic banter! I pray the powers that be release season 6 TGT for us to have a 'One last time' moment with three of our best mates that most of us have probavly never even met. Im gonna miss them and know a lot of you will too. Happy New Year TG/TGT family

The shear joy and excitement this car brought Richard while driving it is so wholesome. Great video, DRIVETRIBE.

I remember vividly my Dad taking me and my brother out in a Turbo 2000 Impreza unmarked police car around 1995, it was like nothing else we'd ever experienced at that time. He ended up owning a couple of the same shape as Hammonds from new, and I was luckily enough to be old enough for him to let me drive them by this point - they definitely feel, erm, unique lol

This was an awesome video! 6:28 I love what Hammond says here! its profound stuff you only hear from Hammond, Clarkson, and May! Cars are living things!!!!!

Great video. So many cars in my time. VTR, VTS, MG160 (hmmm), WRX, WRX STi PPP, WR1, WRX STi 300S, A5 (one of first in UK), A6 Bi turbo (2013), RS6 (C7), RS5 (C8) and currently RS6 C8 (Litchfield). Loved all the cars, driving , ICE and so on. To be honest have not watched Top Gear for years, and have been watching more RU-vid content creators that are doing what TG did decades ago (and I love it). So to find this this video this evening, and the one with Izzy Hammond is a joy to watch. It is about the love of cars and driving, without the silly stuff. Love it! Mark.

Just a man having fun in his car.

nothing hits me in the feels like a 04-07 sti i own a 06 and its the most fun and best car ive ever driven

so glad you like it, was a pleasure to see your reaction to it, im glad you and the car are together its such a great pairing and can really see and hear you pleasure with it

This video and the feelings you emote are perfect…it reminds me of driving alone down country lanes in my old Glanza V 🥰

Richard looks more happy about his STI, than a Rimac! Genuinely loves this car!

every country in the world: "oh it's raining. we'll have to postpone filming" britain: "goodmorning!"

Best video ive seen on youtube. This is old style top gear vibes, such a great throwback and absolutely made my day

Love watching Hammond behind the wheel..almost as much as I enjoy his take on the car he's in. That Subaru is epic. I've always enjoyed the sound those engines make

Always enjoy the happiness of Richard when he's driving a car that makes him feel alive. Next, we need a video of Izzy driving the car with Richard as the passenger, the mixture of joy and fear on his face will be a classic.

This is exactly what we all want. Feels like the old days

Ritchard Hammond doing road tests again is the thing we need but we do not deserve. I love this video. BIG THANK YOU RITCHARD FOR ALL THOSE YEARS.

Amazing to watch his genuine reaction, im gonna miss the grand tour though.

You may not review cars anymore, but you haven’t lost your fastball. Congrats on the new ride. Enjoy it.

I have always admired these cars from afar until I nearly bought one but plumped for a Fiesta ST and never regretted it. My neighbour a lot of years ago had the MacRae 555 version then bought an RB5 and although I never drove it his partner drove myself and friends into town one Saturday evening and it cornered like it was on rails. That car you have there is a real weapon and has to be driven to be appreciated. Enjoy!!!

Oh how much we have missed this! Thank you ❤

There it is! Richard in his happy place. Great work everyone!

How to make a man cry. Put Richard Hammond back in front of a camera just road testing his own car.

love your vid

A brilliant vid that shows Richards passion for cars, and the thrill he gets from driving them quickly. More please!

I love that you're actually using the DCCD to change the feel of the car while driving. I've got an 06 STI and use it regularly to better my urban driving, or mountain runs. So many people I've met that also have WRX STIs never touch it.

the things i would do to have even the low setting in my wrx wagon 😂😂 i dumped money in suspension/mount makeover instead. but it would be an animalnin the twisties

Lots of character in a EJ05 that being a 2.1 stroker will be so much faster Ive got a 04 Subaru Forester XT manual SG5 absolutely love it would love too own a sti one day

This was therapeutic! Thank you.

Brilliant video that was...Could really see the passion flow through Hammond while driving Martin.... Can't wait to see more of Hammond and Martin on a road trip of some sort...hopefully with Clarkson and May...

You should drag race it on carwow.