Car Maniac YouTube Stats

@carmaniac_chris · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Car Maniac channel overview

Car Maniac (@carmaniac_chris) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2015. It has 400K subscribers and 239M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 158K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 254K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 238K views. Over the last 12 months, Car Maniac published 57 videos (32% Shorts), and 3 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Car Maniac gained 1K subscribers and 2.7M views, about 390K views a day.

How much does Car Maniac make?

Returbe estimates Car Maniac's YouTube ad revenue at $25K – $87K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.1 to $7.35, typically $3.68, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3.7K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Car Maniac publishes about 22.8 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (19% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Car Maniac's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Car Maniac's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• AMG rasiert alles weg #amg #mercedes #elektroauto1.2M views · Oct 29, 20267× typical views
• Einfach Scheiße #mercedes #elektroauto #fastned847K views · Sep 17, 20264.8× typical views
• Achtung E Auto Klugscheisser #ionity #elektromobilität #porsche751K views · Oct 10, 20264.2× typical views
• Mercedes zerlegt China #mercedes #amg #china #elektroauto378K views · Oct 17, 20262.1× typical views
• Immer schlechtere Qualität #bmw #luxurycars #elektroauto363K views · Sep 27, 20262× typical views
• WARUM lassen wir SOWAS ZU?? | XPENG G9L431K views · Oct 12, 20261.8× typical views
• Bin ich verblendet ODER ist das ein Knaller? | AUDI A2 etron 388K views · Sep 7, 20261.6× typical views
• Wer kauft nen elektrischen Bentley? #bentley #elektroauto279K views · Sep 23, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Car Maniac's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Darf man das? #amg #mercedes #elektroauto31K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• Schlimmer geht’s nicht (für Alle anderen) | Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Türer127K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Leasing-Abbruch BMW iX3 | Warum ich ihn vorzeitig abgebe187K views · Nov 3, 20260.8× typical views
• Keine Emotionen? #bmw #porsche67K views · Nov 1, 20260.4× typical views
• Das war’s mit Car Maniac 45K views · Oct 31, 20260.2× typical views
• Werbung | Dieses Elektroauto kann man Tanken 😉 #lotus #EletreX49K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Warum E-Auto LADEN trotz Gerichtsurteil NIE günstiger wird119K views · Oct 31, 20260.5× typical views
• AMG rasiert alles weg #amg #mercedes #elektroauto1.2M views · Oct 29, 20267× typical views
• Xpeng X9 vs Mercedes C400 | Schlägt China Deutschland?193K views · Oct 28, 20260.8× typical views
• Peak Performance #bmw #luxus #elektroauto162K views · Oct 25, 20260.9× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 590 channels in this niche. 17.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 30K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Drivewhisperer (123K subs, best video 182.5×), SOUTENIR L'AGRICULTURE (138K subs, best video 38.2×), Petroleum (35K subs, best video 639.4×), The Daily Downshift (294K subs, best video 17.9×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (25K subs, best video 184.4×), That Car Guy (88K subs, best video 218.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Car Maniac or YouTube.