A bit more than 3 1/2 years ago, I did a post on my five favourite car Youtubers that saw a lot of interest. Youtube has obviously developed quite a bit in the last three years, with the offer getting ever larger, be it on cars or anything else, but sticking to automobiles, I thought an update on what is worth watching today could be of interest – as well as checking where some of those highlighted three years ago are today!

Starting with the latter, Shmee is as active and irritating as he ever was. His following has grown to over 2.5 million, and his car stable has grown by much more, in millions of pounds… Some of his latest adventures include taking possession of a Koenigsegg Jesko, driving around in a McLaren 750S Spider, and taking a tour to Germany in his new Ferrari Purosangue. Doing so he made a big thing of getting a nail in one of his tires. I strongly doubt anyone felt sorry for him.

Doug DeMuro has also made it rather big, in various aspects. Firstly his channel is now up to almost five million subscribers, which is noticeable as Doug hasn’t really changed his approach since he started in 2013, which in Youtube terms is an eternity. Even more importantly though, Doug founded his online auction business Cars and Bids in 2019 and sold it last year to the Chernin Group, netting a very healthy USD 37m. And of course, he also bought a white Lamborghini Countach, which in my book is about as cool as it gets.

The other guys I mentioned 3 1/2 years ago are still there, but the only one I feel has really evolved is Throttle House by the Canadian-British duo Thomas and James. Sure, they’ve grown in subscribers, but also in format and types of videos, and these days also get invited to various launches, so they also travel beyond Canada, even to Europe last year, where they completely killed the new MB E63, which is nice to see (that they travel to Europe that is, not necessarily that they killed off the Merc…).

Next to Throttle House, I also want to mention Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), a well-known Youtuber making the others look like midgets with his more than 18 million subscribers. Marques is actually most well-known as a tech guy, doing lots of tech reviews, with a special affinity for Apple. That has however also led him to cars, starting with EV’s, but now also broadening out beyond that. What’s very likeable with Marques is his modest and very down to earth-style, in stark contrast to the two first guys mentioned in this post.

Marques is the guy who drove a Tesla Model S Plaid with the carbon kit and ceramic brakes that you can’t even get in Europe, but then still went for a 911 Turbo S when the time had come for him to get a new daily driver. If anything, that proves he knows what he’s doing!

Finally, good old Harry Metcalfe and Harry’s Garage also gets the tremendous honour of being included on this list. Harry is the founder of the UK car magazine Evo that is dear to this blog and from which we’ve taken our tagline. Harry these days lives on his farm (for which, by the way, he has a separate channel, if farm life is your thing) with a huge barn where he keeps his respectable car collection, and regularly tests other automobiles. It’s low-key, down-to-earth, and in a factual way that I personally really like.

Actually I like Harry even more than usual this week, since his latest video on his new RR Sport Diesel (yes!!) is very much in line with my latest post from a couple of weeks ago. In it, Harry adds another couple of points to the long list of EV problems, notably that of battery degradation depending on climate and charging.

Just to give you an example, a Nissan Leaf, what you would think of as the type of small, more efficient car an EV should be, if driven in a warm climate such as California and charged to a large extent on fast chargers, as anyone not having a charger at home would do, loses 50% if its battery capacity in a few years. Harry also quotes Toyota’s CEO Akio Toyoda, who last week said he doesn’t see more than 1/3 of the global car fleet being battery-powered in the future. Could it be that a few voices of reason are starting to appear, ever so slowly?

Anyway, do watch Harry, Marques and the Throttle House guys, since if you read this blog, chances are you’ll like them. And if you feel I’ve missed someone that I should be aware of, please don’t hesitate saying so in the comments!