A new TV series has been announced as Richard Hammond has taken control of a classic car company.
The former Top Gear presenter has revealed that the new season of Richard Hammond's Workshop will be launched on Tuesday, October 27.
The trailer for the sixth edition of the TV show was shared on his social media and features The Smallest Cog, a Hereford-based garage where classic cars are restored to their former glory, with the series chronicling the real-life struggles of running the workshop.
In the latest trailer Mr Hammond admits that there have been "a lot of changes lately" with reports of financial difficulties since the end of the fifth season in November last year.
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Indeed, earlier this year it emerged that the car workshop was at one point struggling under debts of about £700,000, according to The Sun newspaper.
Mr Hammond reportedly injected nearly £600,000 of his own money into the garage venture, where the team chrome-plated Oxfordshire farmer Jeremy Clarkson’s vintage tractor. It now hangs in Clarkson's Cotswolds pub, The Farmer’s Dog, in Asthall, near Burford.
Following this revelation it emerged via documents posted with Companies House that Mr Hammond, who is believed to have earned a fortune of £37m, is a the majority shareholder in The Smallest Cog.
A document entitled 'New Nature of Control', relating to Mr Hammond, which was filed in December 2025, said: "The person holds, directly or indirectly, 75 per cent or more of the shares in the company.
"The person holds, directly or indirectly, 75 per cent or more of the voting rights in the company.
"The person has the right, directly or indirectly, to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors of the company."
Following Mr Hammond taking control, The Sun subsequently revealed that the ex Grand Tour host's business partner at the garage, mechanic Neil Greenhouse, had quit the business citing frustration with the TV filming deadlines.
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Mr Hammond told the paper at the time: “We’ve restructured the business and it is, finally, starting to work.
“Our new workforce joins me in being determined to take The Smallest Cog forward as a company and make it bigger and better, producing wonderful work on beautiful cars.”
It is unknown how much of this the new series of Richard Hammond's Workshop will chronicle although a new cast member, Roy, is introduced in the trailer.
"This is Roy," said Mr Hammond, "his job is to take us into a big, bold, bright new future".
The latest season can be streamed on Discovery+ or seen on Quest TV from October 27.
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