The Late Brake Show

The Late Brake Show was launched just weeks before something called Covid capsized the developed world. After working for years in print, then TV and other YouTube brands, motoring journo Jonny Smith decided it was time to authentically distill his automotive brain under one digital umbrella; no TV producers to pollute and fake reviews, restorations or discoveries.  A rare channel where old cars are married with new, EVs get as much limelight as V8, and the people behind the machinery are celebrated.

The Late Brake Show’s archive bulges with over 375 films, but hopefully the passion and curiosity runs consistently deep throughout. Rarely seen are new supercars, because there’s too many more fascinating (and relevant, and attainable) cars to drive, dig out of barns and cosplay in.

The algorithm doesn’t always appreciate such variety and breath from one channel, but The Late Brake Show won’t be pigeonholed. One minute you’re having a tour of a cutting edge scrap yard, then riding shotgun with Gordon Murray in his Ford Escort. Then next? Wading through stinging nettles to find a buried Porsche in a welsh garden, followed by seeing how Jonny lavishes his time and money on a project car that probably ought not exist – an Austin Allegro Type R.

The channel attracts over 3m viewers per month.