Throttle House
Thomas Holland and James Engelsman make car reviews, track tests and road-trip films, pairing a love of driving with jokes at each other’s expense.
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Throttle House’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus their backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
Known for
- The Best Cars We’ve Ever Driven2024 · Three-million-subscriber special
YouTube - GT500 vs Camaro ZL1 1LE vs Hellcat Redeye2020 · With Jason Cammisa and Randy Pobst
YouTube - I Secretly Bought Thomas’ Dream Car...For Myself2026 · James’s Alfa Romeo reveal
YouTube - The Grand Tour2026 · Presenters with Francis Bourgeois
Prime Video
Overview
- Hosts
- Thomas Holland and James Engelsman
- Beginnings
- Thomas’s BMW builds and occasional reviews, followed by James joining in 2018
- Format
- Car reviews, comparisons, track tests and road trips
- Milestone
- A three-million-subscriber special in August 2024
- Television
- The Grand Tour presenters alongside Francis Bourgeois in 2026
Mini bio
How it started.
Thomas began with BMW builds and occasional car reviews while working another job. In their Dyler interview, he dated those beginnings to 2015 and recalled James, then a casual viewer, reaching out in 2018 to help. Their partnership became the double act fans know today.
Finding their audience.
Car comparisons, track driving and a willingness to laugh at themselves became the channel’s staples. In August 2024, they celebrated three million subscribers by driving the Tuthill 911K and Alfaholics GTA-R 290 in Wales, with a Richard Hammond cameo.
A bigger adventure.
In 2026, Thomas and James joined Francis Bourgeois to present The Grand Tour. Their own channel also kept publishing, from electric-car reviews to Thomas’s restored Alfa and James’s surprise purchase of a GTA 1300 Junior.
Creditschronological, newest first
Television
- 2026The Grand TourPresenters alongside Francis Bourgeois
YouTube films
- 2026I Built My Dream Alfa RomeoThomas and James present Thomas’s restored GT 1300 Junior
- 2024The Best Cars We’ve Ever DrivenPresenters of the three-million-subscriber special
- 2020GT500 vs Camaro ZL1 1LE vs Hellcat RedeyeCo-writers and presenters; Thomas also edited, James produced
Quotes
Let the car adventures commence.James Engelsman, About Amazon UK
James said this in the February 2026 announcement introducing the new presenters of The Grand Tour.
Trivia
- Thomas’s first car was a 1994 Pontiac Bonneville SSEI handed down by his dad.
- James saved for his first Vauxhall Corsa by working in a toy shop; his dad matched his savings.
- The three-million-subscriber special took Thomas to an Alfaholics GTA-R 290, a car he had long wanted to drive.
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