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Izzy Hammond meets a 900kg Peugeot 205 GTI from the 1980s

Richard Hammond hands his daughter the keys to a Tolman Edition hot hatch in the week's only DRIVETRIBE upload.

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DRIVETRIBEStory of September 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Can Richard Hammond Make Izzy Love the Peugeot 205 GTI?

On an ordinary day, the whole DRIVETRIBE catalog draws something like 160,000 views between its hundreds of videos. The one new video of the week, "Can Richard Hammond Make Izzy Love the Peugeot 205 GTI?", managed well over twice that on its first day alone.

The premise is a father-daughter test drive. Hammond takes Izzy back to the 1980s in a Tolman Edition 205 GTI 1.9, a car the description sums up as tiny, light and old-school. The question in the title is whether a machine like that can win over a modern driver. The 205 GTI arrived in 1984 and became one of the defining hot hatches of its decade, so the pairing is a small generational experiment. At two days old it is already past a third of a million views.

Behind it, two September videos are still turning over. One has Hammond delivering an 850-horsepower Gunther Werks Porsche restomod to Jeremy Clarkson at The Farmer's Dog, and it has passed three million views. The other is his look back at The Grand Tour, including a phone video from the final drive with Clarkson and James May.

Among the larger motoring channels, Speeed and Throttle House are running above their usual pace, while Shmee150 is a touch quieter. DRIVETRIBE sits fourth of nine by subscribers.

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