I like this review

 

Thanks for the post, I enjoyed the review.

 

 

He has a very irritating way of speakinnnnnggggggggggg.

 

I am going to go against the grain and say that I really do like Doug's videos and input. This video included. You can learn quite a bit about a car in a short 20min video. Not a replacement for real world experience with a car, but interesting. He is clearly a car guy with his own path and I really like that. Plus he makes videos in whatever tee shirt and shorts he put on that morning. His delivery is an acquired taste for sure. First video I was a skeptic... after a couple dozen.. Hmmm different take.

I also think I have a LOT of respect for a guy who is taking home conservatively more than $1M a year just from his YouTube channel. (of which he now has a second).
All this for helping us enjoy a car's 'quirks & features' ... which he does with good humor in about 20min a pop. Come on this guy does quite well driving exotics for a living. And frankly probably very few headaches in the process.

Good for him for banking $1M from just one of his income sources... with 'a few' YouTube followers... haha..

(PS I didn't just pull the financials from one web source... Someone prove me wrong.... One interesting source noted $5-7K a month earned revenue [after Youtube fees, etc] per 1M views a month... in general for these car channels... You can now go figure out what Hoovie, or McFarland makes.)

 

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he's making a lot of money for reading owners manuals and making 20 minute videos
wish I thought of it

Doug's videos are interesting to me as you can see things you'd never know about otherwise with certain cars but for driving and mechanical things just don't even bother listening to him... the guy buys extended warranties on all his cars FFS, dude is dumb

 

I enjoy his videos for the reviews of the interior and exterior. He usually points out things nobody else has noticed. If you want a good review of how the car drives look elsewhere, though. He gives ok general comments for daily driving, which is probably fine for a lot people who will buy the car, but he's no performance driver.

 

 

I believe Rover paid out over 5x the warranty cost in repairs on Doug's RR alone and his Vantage payout was almost 2x. He knows (and has said as much) to only buy extended warranties on traditionally unreliable cars, so I'm not sure "dumb" is accurate, at least in this context.

I've been reading Doug's columns since before YouTube was ever a thought for him, so I was pretty well acquainted with his style. Like any other YouTube personality, it's a matter of taste. But whether you like his writing/videos or not, congrats to him for cashing in while doing something he loves.