What Car? YouTube Stats

@whatcar · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 8, 2026

What Car? channel overview

What Car? (@whatcar) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2006. It has 623K subscribers and 288M total views across 2.2K videos, an average of 129K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 72K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 182K views. Over the last 12 months, What Car? published 58 videos (69% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, What Car? gained 1K subscribers and 2.1M views, about 153K views a day.

How much does What Car? make?

Returbe estimates What Car?'s YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $42K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.28 to $11.47, typically $5.73, 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 $5.7K.

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

What Car? publishes about 14.1 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (19% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

What Car?'s best outlier videos

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

• 5 Cities in the Renault 5: London #ytshorts #shorts129K views · Sep 13, 20269.7× typical views
• INSIDE THE NEW XPENG L03! | What Car?40K views · Oct 8, 20263× typical views
• Abarth 600e Competizione: Dockyard breakout #shorts #ytshorts36K views · Sep 15, 20262.7× typical views
• 5 Cities in the Renault 5: Manchester #ytshorts #shorts34K views · Sep 10, 20262.6× typical views
• Abarth 600e Competizione: Warehouse escape #ytshorts #shorts31K views · Sep 17, 20262.3× typical views
• Abarth 600e Competizione: Street snarl #ytshorts #shorts29K views · Sep 17, 20262.2× typical views
• 5 Cities in the Renault 5: York #ytshorts #shorts27K views · Sep 8, 20262× typical views
• EV Camping: Who needs a hotel anyway? 🤔 | What Car?27K views · Sep 29, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

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

• A peek into Everything Electric London #shorts #ytshort1.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• The real dangers of underinflated tyres 🛞 | What Car?2.4K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• EV or ICE?! | What Car?2.8K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• How comfortable is the Volvo ES90's interior?! | What Car?4.2K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• VW Golf goes hybrid! | What Car?5.8K views · Nov 1, 20260.4× typical views
• Passenger ride in the Mercedes AMG GT Coupé 🔥 | What Car?3.9K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• New BMW 3 Series Review – Still the BEST?75K views · Oct 29, 20260.4× typical views
• New VW ID Polo Review – Is it BETTER than a Renault 5?232K views · Oct 26, 20261.3× typical views
• NEW Range Rover Sport Electric Review – We've DRIVEN It!80K views · Oct 24, 20260.4× typical views
• NEW Toyota Yaris Cross review – Better than a Ford Puma?147K views · Oct 18, 20260.8× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 7.6K videos from 806 channels in this niche. 17.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Drivewhisperer (123K subs, best video 179.6×), SOUTENIR L'AGRICULTURE (139K subs, best video 39.1×), Petroleum (36K subs, best video 745.7×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (25K subs, best video 191.6×), Tyler John Wesley (32K subs, best video 747.8×), The Daily Downshift (294K subs, best video 27.8×).

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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 What Car? or YouTube.