The Zero-Dollar Garage YouTube Stats

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

The Zero-Dollar Garage channel overview

The Zero-Dollar Garage (@thezerodollargarage) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2026. It has 25K subscribers and 31M total views across 74 videos, an average of 415K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 681K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 17K views. Over the last 12 months, The Zero-Dollar Garage published 52 videos (100% Shorts), and 9 of them (17%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, The Zero-Dollar Garage gained 9K subscribers and 10M views, about 652K views a day.

How much does The Zero-Dollar Garage make?

Returbe estimates The Zero-Dollar Garage's YouTube ad revenue at $679 – $2.3K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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Upload schedule

The Zero-Dollar Garage publishes about 13 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (15% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

The Zero-Dollar Garage's best outlier videos

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

• Why He Built A Real Pink BMW M4 For His Little Sister 🩷 #bmw #heartwarming #shorts #shortsfeed11M views · Sep 24, 2026641.6× typical views
• They Laughed at His Tiny Car… Until He Built This 🔥#carbuild #shorts5.8M views · Oct 2, 2026327.7× typical views
• Why Did He Build a Real BMW M4 for His Little Brother? 💙 #bmw #heartwarming #shorts #shortsfeed1M views · Sep 27, 202658.6× typical views
• They Laughed and Mocked him at His Wooden Toy.. Until He Built This 🔥🤯 #carrestoration #shorts860K views · Oct 4, 202648.7× typical views
• How He Built a Real Mercedes C63 S For His Little Sister ❤ #DIY #MercedesAMG #Shorts #Shortsfeed772K views · Sep 21, 202643.7× typical views
• They Laughed at Him… Then He Built a Toyota Grande 😳🔥 #ToyotaGrande #Shorts #shortsfeed558K views · Sep 17, 202631.5× typical views
• Why He Built A Real BMW M4 For His Little Sister #bmw #heartwarming #shorts #shortsfeed530K views · Sep 19, 202630× typical views
• Her toy was broken So, He Built a Real Ferrari for His Little Sister ❤️ #DIY #Short #Shortsfeed131K views · Sep 22, 20267.4× typical views

Latest videos

11 of The Zero-Dollar Garage's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• She Begged Him for Help… Until Then He Built Her a BLACKPINK BMW 🖤 #shorts #heartwarming #shortsfeed6.9K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views
• They Laughed At His Wrecked Car… Until He Built This #shorts #shortsfeed #carrestoration #trending9.4K views · Oct 24, 20260.5× typical views
• They Said It Was Trash… Wait for the Engine Start 😳🔥 #classicmuscle #dodgecharger #shorts25K views · Oct 23, 20261.4× typical views
• They Laughed At This Wooden Cart… Then It Started Engine 😳🏎️ #mustang #diy #shorts2.3K views · Oct 22, 20260.1× typical views
• They Laughed at His Scrap Car… Until He Built THIS BMW 😲🔥 #heartwarming #shorts #shortsfeed48K views · Oct 21, 20262.7× typical views
• They Called It the Ugliest Car Ever… Until He Rebuilt This 😳🔥#shortsfeed #carrestoration #shorts58K views · Oct 20, 20263.3× typical views
• You Won’t Believe What I Found in This Scrapyard #carrestoration #shorts #shortsfeed14K views · Oct 18, 20260.8× typical views
• I Bought a Wrecked Bugatti Chiron for $2,000… Full Restoration ASMR 🔥 #shorts #shortsfeed #bugatti18K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views
• They laughed at him until he built this 🏎️ #short #shortfeed3.6K views · Oct 14, 20260.2× typical views
• They Laughed at Him…Until He Turned a Giant Log Into McLaren 750s #heartwarming #shorts #shortsfeed24K views · Oct 13, 20261.4× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.8K videos from 592 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 215.9×).

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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 The Zero-Dollar Garage or YouTube.