SUV Detective YouTube Stats

@thesuvdetective · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 13, 2026

SUV Detective channel overview

SUV Detective (@thesuvdetective) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2023. It has 32K subscribers and 7.8M total views across 312 videos, an average of 25K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 24K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 6.7K views. Over the last 12 months, SUV Detective published 52 videos (4% Shorts), and 12 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does SUV Detective make?

Returbe estimates SUV Detective 's YouTube ad revenue at $7.7K – $27K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $14, typically $7, 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 $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

SUV Detective publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (17% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 12, 2026.

SUV Detective 's best outlier videos

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

• $90,000 Luxury Cars Are Now Selling for Under $15,000 — Smart Buyers Are Pouncing167K views · Nov 7, 202624.9× typical views
• 12 Old Luxury Cars Everyone Ignores — But Their Engines Never Die148K views · Oct 26, 202622.1× typical views
• 12 Dirt-Cheap Luxury Cars That Are About to Explode in Value124K views · Nov 1, 202618.4× typical views
• 12 Old SUV Engines That Last FOREVER Even in 2026 — Never Sell These93K views · Aug 30, 202613.8× typical views
• 12 Cheap Luxury Cars Nobody Wants — But They Outlive Every New Car91K views · Oct 28, 202613.5× typical views
• 12 Old Cars So Overbuilt That Manufacturers Lost Money Making Them71K views · Aug 16, 202610.5× typical views
• Geely: The biggest SECRET of the car industry?69K views · Aug 18, 202610.2× typical views
• 12 Luxury Cars Built Like TANKS — Engineers Made Them TOO Tough to Fail64K views · Aug 23, 20269.6× typical views

Latest videos

8 of SUV Detective 's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 13 Dirt-Cheap Luxury Cars "Rotting" on Lots 2026 (Buy Once, Never Shop Again)10K views · Nov 12, 20261.5× typical views
• 13 Luxury Cars from the 2000s That Simply Refuse to Die — Built Like Tanks4.6K views · Nov 9, 20260.7× typical views
• $90,000 Luxury Cars Are Now Selling for Under $15,000 — Smart Buyers Are Pouncing167K views · Nov 7, 202624.9× typical views
• 13 Luxury Cars That Are Actually Safer to Own AFTER the Warranty Expires46K views · Nov 6, 20266.8× typical views
• 12 Luxury Cars That Will Bankrupt You — Mechanics BEG You Not to Buy2.9K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• The Absolute Insanity of the 2JZ — Toyota's Engine That Refuses to Die3.3K views · Nov 2, 20260.5× typical views
• 12 Dirt-Cheap Luxury Cars That Are About to Explode in Value124K views · Nov 1, 202618.4× typical views
• How One Ad Destroyed Jaguar's Billion-Dollar Empire1K views · Oct 29, 20260.2× typical views
• 12 Cheap Luxury Cars Nobody Wants — But They Outlive Every New Car91K views · Oct 28, 202613.5× typical views
• How Toyota’s $1 Billion Lexus Humiliated Mercedes and BMW6.6K views · Oct 27, 20261× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 1.2K channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: By Any Memes (2.3K subs, best video 1116.8×), Hauptsache Wissen (163K subs, best video 39.1×), Drivewhisperer (125K subs, best video 130.5×), Petroleum (38K subs, best video 787×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (26K subs, best video 196×), CarHax Shorts (367K subs, best video 109.4×).

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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 SUV Detective or YouTube.