I think
Speed Academy is the best one out there in terms of modifying cars. I just wish they would expand their portfolio* a bit and drive them more...
*They modify Japanese cars and BMWs almost exclusively. Very rarely they'll do something else.
Throttle House - Honestly fun but not in a way that feels like it's overly referential to
that one car show. Too many auto vloggers lean really heavily on Clarkson-esque similes that feel very cringe to me (Looking at you EverydayDriver & Jayemm)
Savageese I go back and forth on. I find jack to be really annoying and they position themselves as a kind of authority figure but frequently get stuff wrong. That said, they go far more into technical details than anyone else.
Harry's Garage is good but he can be overly sentimental.
I like anything that
Henry Catchpole does, cars or bicycles.
I like Matt Farah and
The Smoking Tire, but their one-take videos aren't as fun or frequent as they used to be, Zach always feels a bit forced, and their more edited videos aren't that well done in a way that makes them distracting.
Windingroad/The Topher offers a simple and impressively deep catalog of POV driving videos, but not much more than that.
Pretty bored with
The Straight Pipes, Yuri barely seems interested anymore and I generally dislike their perspective. Nobody cares about satellite radio rewinding!
I'll check in with Hoonigan every now and then, just to see what they're up to but I find them highly annoying overall.
I also want to give a special mention to
Nicole Johnson, one very few female automotive youtubers with class and doesn't resort to obvious clickbait tactics. I think she would do really good one-take videos since her reactions and such seem honest yet still very expressive. She has charisma for sure.
