Pushing Pistons YouTube Stats

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

Pushing Pistons channel overview

Pushing Pistons (@pushingpistons) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2008. It has 673K subscribers and 587M total views across 1.4K videos, an average of 424K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 578K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 216K views. Over the last 12 months, Pushing Pistons published 57 videos (96% Shorts), and 15 of them (26%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 8 days, Pushing Pistons gained 10K subscribers and 14M views, about 1.7M views a day.

How much does Pushing Pistons make?

Returbe estimates Pushing Pistons's YouTube ad revenue at $2.5K – $7.9K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.05 to $0.16, typically $0.09, 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 $90.

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

Pushing Pistons publishes about 19.6 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (19% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Pushing Pistons's best outlier videos

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

• The Benz Patent Motorwagen was the first car pwowered by an engine and the start up requires 💪32M views · Aug 20, 2026260.2× typical views
• Seeing the Tesla Roadster at the Petersen Museum made me appreciate the engineering that’s inside it6.6M views · Oct 28, 202654× typical views
• This Toyota Sienna Platinum costs $58,000 and has everything you need for a family road trip4.1M views · Sep 20, 202633.4× typical views
• The Eccentrica V12 is a really cool resto mod Diablo2.8M views · Aug 24, 202622.4× typical views
• The 2027 Audi Q9 is really NICE!1.8M views · Jul 29, 202614.3× typical views
• The Chevy Silverado EV trailboss gets 478 miles of range 😳1.4M views · Sep 8, 202611.6× typical views
• The new Audi Q9 has genius turn signal lights!1.3M views · Oct 27, 202610.6× typical views
• Now you are ready to drive a Bugatti Veyron 🫡1.2M views · Aug 13, 20269.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Pushing Pistons's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The New Escalade IQ has a lot of screens and many different ways to close the doors19K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• This Honda Civic has 130 speakers and sounds WILD!303K views · Nov 4, 20262.5× typical views
• What do you think of the Zacoe Widebody kit on the Lamborghini Temerario?!135K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• This 24k Gold Truck is the most wild truck I’ve seen at SEMA292K views · Nov 3, 20262.4× typical views
• This Miata is 100% stock if anyone asks 🥲270K views · Nov 3, 20262.2× typical views
• Toyota really put tank tracks on their trucks for the Snowhunter SEMA build157K views · Nov 3, 20261.3× typical views
• The Audi Q9 lights are on another level at night!71K views · Oct 30, 20260.6× typical views
• Seeing the Tesla Roadster at the Petersen Museum made me appreciate the engineering that’s inside it6.6M views · Oct 28, 202654× typical views
• The new Audi Q9 has genius turn signal lights!1.3M views · Oct 27, 202610.6× typical views
• Send this to your parents so they know an F1 car is a great first car thanks for Isack Hadjar167K views · Oct 25, 20261.4× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.9K videos from 605 channels in this niche. 17.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 29K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

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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 Pushing Pistons or YouTube.