I remember how triggered the other 3 got when the Stig wrote his book. They were on mega bucks and slagging the Stig off for his side-hustle. Pathetic. I reckon the Stig would have been better than Richard as a presenter and had less crashes...
So if he did top gear now people would watch it like they used to ? Sure they would 😂 last one I watched was with Chris evans 10 mins in thought not for me never watched it again never missed an episode with the original or grand tour although that took a while to get used to 😂
He's Great and he would've been a Great Addition but don't play with those 3 Top Tier Car Presenters that ain no Joke he did a Great Job and is doing a Great Job here as well but not those 3 smh
This is not the Nordschleife. And May only dislikes it because it is used as the benchmark by all automakers, to which they tune their sports/super/duper/hyper cars. Any other track and he would hate that - he is Mista Slowly after all...😅
Really enjoyed this and almost felt as though we saw a new side of Ben. Really entertaining to watch and we all know his driving skills are up there with the best. Would love to see more of him 👍👍
At this moment, STIG is the most serious of the former trio (well, in that case - quattro) and his driving impressions are probably the most noteworthy of the whole tr.. quattro for anyone interested not so much in the personality - but in the car actually being reviewed. Well done, greetings from Latvia. I might have misspelled the italian word for "four".
Wow, Ben's delivery and the cinematography were insane. Also, the fact that you could incorporate the DT M5, very poetic story-telling. More people need to see this!
Once again, Ben does a great job at driving and conveying his experience. Really impressive production quality too, felt like a Top Gear / Grand Tour film.
That car just became even more interesting now that Bens reviewed it. I wish I could drive like this man, it would be more enjoyable to own a car like the M3 if you have the skills to drive it fast.
The Stig's car tests, Hammond and or May driving or building something while telling a story, that's all this channel needs really. 👍 I wonder if Ben ever bought that Delta he wanted from the last video.
I think the G80/G82's driving dynamics are great, but the only way on the which I could forget about that face is by having those dynamics in the greatness of an M3 Touring ❤️ (If I could buy one I would still look for a better front body kit but yeah!)
I know it said paid promotion but I almost forgot that it was an ad, not that I’m complaining. No lies we’re told and we got to see Wolfgang drive off towards the horizon. The lack of any kind of criticism was distracting which was why I remembered.
I wonder if Drivetribe ever realizes what a gem they still have at their hands and starts using its sparkle to lift this channel to another level. If the old guys cant be bothered anymore to regularly do these "Top Gear" things, let Ben do it! Now, I dont know how expensive it would be to get interesting cars to test drive them (doesnt have to be on a race track - speaking of which, what happened to the plans to secure a track for Drivetribe?), but this is the type of content many if not most subscribers want to see. But one day some show will hire Ben and thats when the jewel will be gone...
As one of those people who fell in love with the E9X, C63, and Audi RS4 based on the Top Gear vid pitting them against one another, this was epic to watch!!! More of The Stig please!!!
@drivetribe It's great seeing the the likes of "Stig" playing with cars like this, but it's also a bit scary that there will be "ordinary" people driving this car with 500hp available. Ben Collins makes this car dance on the track, I do hope "ordinary" people will be careful!!
Thorough test, great driver, and it's the same story with every M Beamer of the last years: Great to drive, ghastly to look at. Still, as my grandma used to say: The ugliest houses have the best view.
Ben has certainly found his calling. Brilliant educated review. Was waiting for Jeremy to have his input at the end like he did in the old Top Gear reviews.
Amazing car, we saw you on the show and Jamie Oliver was the star, first show after Christmas and it snowed in the night so i thought it would be cancelled, but by the time they started filming it was just very wet, we were the first people to see Hammond accident in the jet car before the show went out on Sunday night, what a day and what memories, iv just got my new 340i tourer and love it, maybe one day i might be able to afford the m3 tourer 🙏, i used to race karts with lewis, do you do track instructing as i would love you to teach me, you were the best STIG WELL DONE 👏
Missed opportunity. Arrived on track in an E61 M5 and didn’t do a head to head comparison. Ben’s a really down to earth bloke but that really missed the mark
Some say he's not the Stig anymore....and that an imposter has taken his place. All we know is, he's THE Ben Collins. Great to see him back on the channel.
Really nice video! And the product value in the intro, spot on! Great to see Ben back and doing reviews. If he is up for it, he could very well become a regular. His on screen persona is nice to listen to and is just about perfectly balanced between humorous and factual.
I've found that as a Yank, living in the American Midwest, that people purchase BMWs purely as a status symbol. I have hardly seen a "M" badge on any BMW which I encounter. Me, if I had the money and money for maintenance, I'd have a M series BMW. I liked that yellow M6 they brought out a few years ago.
I wonder if DriveTribe got this opportunity because they've got one of the last V10s that still work? Excellent vid BTW, and here's hoping there's footage of the V10 running round the lap too to emerge onto the channel
A proper channel, giving a proper review. I don’t go in for these new fad YT’s who get given cars to advertise and can’t really drive, think they are journalists when they’re not. Henry, Chris and Ben can really drive and “sell” me a car through their videos.
Some say he talks a lot, unlike what was knows previously and that he drove more cool cars in his career than anyone can imagine. All we know he was once called The Stig.
Gotta say "Stig" has got that Tiff Needell vibes going. Very critical and precise delivery of how the vehicle drives and he can drive it well too.
I agree .
Top gear should get ben, chris and Johny Smith and id be watching again oh yeah tiff as the stig....
Or must make us think its tiff.
Exactly what I’d want from two former racing drivers
I agree
Stig is much better thsn Tiff.
Comparing Ben to Tiff is a serious insult to the man, he displays none of the Tiff arrogance.
Please do more of these car reviews with the stig realy enjoying to watch
No wonder they made him keep that helmet on all those years.. worried he'd present better than they do
Makes one wonder how the dynamic of 4 presenters would have turned out if he joined the team 🤔
I remember how triggered the other 3 got when the Stig wrote his book. They were on mega bucks and slagging the Stig off for his side-hustle. Pathetic. I reckon the Stig would have been better than Richard as a presenter and had less crashes...
So if he did top gear now people would watch it like they used to ? Sure they would 😂 last one I watched was with Chris evans 10 mins in thought not for me never watched it again never missed an episode with the original or grand tour although that took a while to get used to 😂
He's Great and he would've been a Great Addition but don't play with those 3 Top Tier Car Presenters that ain no Joke he did a Great Job and is doing a Great Job here as well but not those 3 smh
Ha.
Bens just a natural star, superb presentation and entertaining throughout
Agreed. Also a fan of Wolfgang :D
when the Stig says "its easy to drive", it makes me think twice
Can the Stig speak?
@@Jonsson474 The Stig speaks a language unknown to mankind and sometimes communicate by making clicking and beeping noises
@@bradwhite5884 I have long suspected the Stig to be a dolphin.
New M cars are very easy to drive
Haven't seen many videos of Ben Collins as Ben Collins but I quite like his presentation style. Hope to see more of this!
check out his you-tube its great and criminally under subscribed. like seriously the production values are amazing and Ben is great to watch.
@@dr2165 Ben Collins Drives channel ?
@@dr2165 he was also on fifth gear for a while
The Stig has a very nice style of drift. It's very clean and smooth.
decades of experience and a lot of natural talent.
Ah the Nürburgring. Should have asked James May if he wanted to come along. He LOVES that place! 😂
I thought he was wearing the Wolfgang dress.
this is the GP track though, not the part from the 1920s which james loves so dearly
This is not the Nordschleife.
And May only dislikes it because it is used as the benchmark by all automakers, to which they tune their sports/super/duper/hyper cars. Any other track and he would hate that - he is Mista Slowly after all...😅
@@Ganiscol Captain slow...🤣🤣🤣
Ben’s an absolute natural to presenting, deserves his own tv show
Really enjoyed this and almost felt as though we saw a new side of Ben. Really entertaining to watch and we all know his driving skills are up there with the best. Would love to see more of him 👍👍
This is awesome! But is it as awesome as our lap(s) in the E61 over the Nordschleife? Hoping to find out soon! :D
Oh boy
At this moment, STIG is the most serious of the former trio (well, in that case - quattro) and his driving impressions are probably the most noteworthy of the whole tr.. quattro for anyone interested not so much in the personality - but in the car actually being reviewed. Well done, greetings from Latvia. I might have misspelled the italian word for "four".
Wow, Ben's delivery and the cinematography were insane. Also, the fact that you could incorporate the DT M5, very poetic story-telling. More people need to see this!
ill probably speak for everyone if i say "we want more of these Videos". Great work by the Video creator/editor and the "stig". Great Video
Jesus the editing and transitions in that intro were beautiful.
Man how I love that the stig lives on
Once again, Ben does a great job at driving and conveying his experience. Really impressive production quality too, felt like a Top Gear / Grand Tour film.
That car just became even more interesting now that Bens reviewed it. I wish I could drive like this man, it would be more enjoyable to own a car like the M3 if you have the skills to drive it fast.
Outstanding presenter; I could listen to The Stig review cars all day.
A lovely video, thanks Ben and the team who brought this beautiful gem of a video, hope to see more tbh
Fantastic car. Always great to see Stig again on Drivetribe. 'Some say, he eats spaghetti with needle nose pliers.'
The Stig's car tests, Hammond and or May driving or building something while telling a story, that's all this channel needs really. 👍 I wonder if Ben ever bought that Delta he wanted from the last video.
I think the G80/G82's driving dynamics are great, but the only way on the which I could forget about that face is by having those dynamics in the greatness of an M3 Touring ❤️ (If I could buy one I would still look for a better front body kit but yeah!)
Ben Collins is an excellent presenter. This also has excellent cinematography, absolutely top notch for a TH-cam production. Great work, team.
That b-roll montage at the beginning was so beautifully slick.
I cannot miss any of videos with Ben, because unlike most journalists who push only on straights, he pushes the car in the corners. Proper testing.
I know it said paid promotion but I almost forgot that it was an ad, not that I’m complaining. No lies we’re told and we got to see Wolfgang drive off towards the horizon. The lack of any kind of criticism was distracting which was why I remembered.
Ben Collins needs to be a regular member of the crew! Amazing in every aspect.
I wonder if Drivetribe ever realizes what a gem they still have at their hands and starts using its sparkle to lift this channel to another level.
If the old guys cant be bothered anymore to regularly do these "Top Gear" things, let Ben do it! Now, I dont know how expensive it would be to get interesting cars to test drive them (doesnt have to be on a race track - speaking of which, what happened to the plans to secure a track for Drivetribe?), but this is the type of content many if not most subscribers want to see.
But one day some show will hire Ben and thats when the jewel will be gone...
I agree with the Stig!
BMW smashed it out the park with this new M3 estate!
As one of those people who fell in love with the E9X, C63, and Audi RS4 based on the Top Gear vid pitting them against one another, this was epic to watch!!! More of The Stig please!!!
Such a Legend! The ole stig still entertains & makes it look so easy.
The Stig is backkkk 🤘
More Stig and Wolfgang please. One bark for yes and two for no
The stig still got it
M3 Touring is a masterpiece
That was awesome. Great to see Stig here.
@drivetribe It's great seeing the the likes of "Stig" playing with cars like this, but it's also a bit scary that there will be "ordinary" people driving this car with 500hp available. Ben Collins makes this car dance on the track, I do hope "ordinary" people will be careful!!
This feels like a top gear or grand tour car review. Really well done
Nothing cooler than a wagon drifting around!!
The biggest shame, is that he had to remain silent for so many years. Amazing presentation/ detail/ information/ etc.
Nice to see Ben again. More please.
Really enjoy watching the Stig “reviewing” a car!!Huge Congratulations!!!!!!!!
The Ben (aka some say he is the Stig) is awesome, more please
Great video. Please keep doing these. I would rather watch him than any of the TG hosts post. Classic era.
Excellent video, bravo!!
Great to see Ben Collins presenting and great car, location, accomplice (Wolfgang) and humour to boot!
Yeh, he's not stuffy at all
@@sianwarwick633 you mean Wolfgang? 😅
*It was once said the Stig started driving at just six months old* 🤣
Best video top gear has present online ever ... hands down more of this!!
Thorough test, great driver, and it's the same story with every M Beamer of the last years: Great to drive, ghastly to look at. Still, as my grandma used to say: The ugliest houses have the best view.
« Some things just don’t change with BMWs » ❤
You did what it said on the Packet.. Brilliant 🙂
Ben has certainly found his calling. Brilliant educated review.
Was waiting for Jeremy to have his input at the end like he did in the old Top Gear reviews.
Can we get a behind the scenes video as well? The production quality is on another level. The intro shots are insane!
Amazing car, we saw you on the show and Jamie Oliver was the star, first show after Christmas and it snowed in the night so i thought it would be cancelled, but by the time they started filming it was just very wet, we were the first people to see Hammond accident in the jet car before the show went out on Sunday night, what a day and what memories, iv just got my new 340i tourer and love it, maybe one day i might be able to afford the m3 tourer 🙏, i used to race karts with lewis, do you do track instructing as i would love you to teach me, you were the best STIG WELL DONE 👏
Missed opportunity. Arrived on track in an E61 M5 and didn’t do a head to head comparison. Ben’s a really down to earth bloke but that really missed the mark
Wow, this is a fantastic video. Great insight, lots of detail, and Ben makes it still really approachable.
Some say he's not the Stig anymore....and that an imposter has taken his place. All we know is, he's THE Ben Collins.
Great to see him back on the channel.
Ben is so composed and gentlemanly, his driving makes up for it ;)
Can I just say, on the M5, the driver's side rear wheel is missing its center cap. Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
The True Stig…what a guy
BEAUTIFUL wagon!!!
That was superb. Ben is brilliant and what a thing that car is.
The cinematography and just general presentation was beautiful. This is peak TH-cam! :)
You guys are making amazing videos lately. Love Ben!
Absolutely awesome the soundtrack from a pure m motor nothing beats this
Really nice video! And the product value in the intro, spot on! Great to see Ben back and doing reviews. If he is up for it, he could very well become a regular. His on screen persona is nice to listen to and is just about perfectly balanced between humorous and factual.
Ben, and Randy Pobst are the best at these car reviews. Accept no others 🙂
It would love another go around the Ring. Go Ben - Stig. Keep it coming, please.
fire transitions, and a truly awesome video
The Stig,yes thank you.
Kudos to drivetribe for bringing up such gem like people out of their caves. May you grow bigger and bigger !
I've found that as a Yank, living in the American Midwest, that people purchase BMWs purely as a status symbol. I have hardly seen a "M" badge on any BMW which I encounter. Me, if I had the money and money for maintenance, I'd have a M series BMW. I liked that yellow M6 they brought out a few years ago.
What a fantastic video, the Stig has gotta be the best addition to the DRIVETRIBE channel!
I wonder if DriveTribe got this opportunity because they've got one of the last V10s that still work? Excellent vid BTW, and here's hoping there's footage of the V10 running round the lap too to emerge onto the channel
Its litteraly the perfect car
A proper channel, giving a proper review. I don’t go in for these new fad YT’s who get given cars to advertise and can’t really drive, think they are journalists when they’re not. Henry, Chris and Ben can really drive and “sell” me a car through their videos.
This thing needs to come to the USDM I’m voting to be so sad if it doesnt
Now that's what I'd call a proper SUV
Oh yes, Mr Collins. The successor we don't deserve! More reviews please!!
Your still the Man STIG 👍👍👍
Wonderful car control skills especially when he put it into Clarkson mode
Great to see Ben!
This guy is awesome as a presenter. And I can trust his assessment since he is a racer. More please.
Thumbs up from a German!😊
Some say he talks a lot, unlike what was knows previously
and that he drove more cool cars in his career than anyone can imagine.
All we know he was once called The Stig.
Another incredible forbidden fruit for us American fast wagon enthusiasts... 😢
You have answered one of my questions. 😢 I would love one of these.
He’s a keeper, much better presentation then the guys from Top Gear, and the driving 🤤🤤🤤
This was really well done. Would like to see more Ben Collins on the channel.
Please get Ben doing more reviews like this!
It's always great to see Ben behind the wheel
My wife's been asking me to go grocery shopping since 2008. I think I'm finally ready 😂
More of 'the stig' reviewing some awesome cars please!!!
Excellent review Ben. Great to see bmw making M tourings again.
Pity you weren't allowed to speak back then, you are fantastic mate, pure class, stig ftw.
The apple test 😍
ben style of review have that james, richard and jeremy style of reviewing combine together.. it's like watching top gear again
The apple test at the end was genius 😍well done sir!
I hope they do more with Mr. Ben Collins.
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE...HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY ✌️
I can definitely watch this man review cars like this.