Podcast Doug and car guy Doug is way way better than used car salesman Doug.
I know this sub has cooled on him and Matt is well Matt but honestly this was one of the best car related listens for me this year.
I also love it when throttle house goes on smoking tire podcast.
I stopped listening to Doug years ago for the fact he got so many obvious things wrong and passed them off as fact. Has that changed?
In the last few years Doug has started making videos on the car market in general. Those are gold and he gets it right in a way I don’t see anyone else even attempting. Videos like what is the collector car market cap. Any of the videos discussing Ford’s decision to drop cars. There’s a playlist on the channel called garage talk. That’s where the talent is.
The talent is not in his reviews. They’ve always been bad, shallow, inconsistent and worst of all he doesn’t know how to drive. I think he’s gotten big because children are YouTube’s largest audience and they love his channel. Luckily he’s continued to grow and capitalize on this success
I don’t really care for Doug’s reviews anymore either but he’s still a great car nerd. This is the ideal setting for him. I prefer him on podcasts over his videos.
Nope. Still gets things wrong while simultaneously chastising the manufacturer for “not including this” while it is included, he/the writers just never read the manual or sat in the car for longer than 10 minutes.
Like what?
No. Same reason I can hardly watch him nowadays.
That, and watching him drive in heavy traffic and pretend to objectively review a sports car’s handling or acceleration. He’d be going in a straight line on the freeway and move the wheel a little, or take a right turn from zero as he talked about it lmao.
Obviously a lot of people like his content but I didn’t think it was aimed at car enthusiasts.
I think that part is realistic though, it’s important how cars feel on normal roads too.
Clearly he drives it else where and is summing up his thoughts on a onetake highway jaunt
IMO his interior review/how he goes over it is the most informative and useful part of his videos.
I love his interior reviews for sure. I don’t care about anything beyond that. But I’ve watched every single Doug video since his Ferrari days. It’s really comfortable listening.
I don’t see him as some overly skilled driver but he has addressed that he often does his spirited driving off camera and the driving segments are just a stage to talk about the impressions. I believe it’s something Matt Farah has addressed as well, some audiences don’t take well to pushing a car hard on the road especially as it often involves unsafe driving. Plus with Doug it’s kinda hard to convey fast driving in his format as well.
What things did he get wrong? I’ve only watched his videos of cars I find interesting so I pass on a lot of his content.
I’m not the OP but in his latest video he remarked the outgoing Tacoma had a 4 liter V6. It doesn’t, it has a 3.5.
So car nerd type stuff.
As someone who is a dozen or so years older than Doug, it cracks me up when he goes on about some quirk or feature that an “old” car has and says something like “I have never seen this” when it is just a normal '80s car thing.
I dislike the way he talks and his repetition.