Automotive Vloggers (Vol 6)
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audi321

6,137 posts

241 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Which one of the Youtube brigade will be buying this one?

https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/90644435/clean-title-...

ChocolateFrog

34,954 posts

201 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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UKsandman said:
614-HSO said:
What a nice feel good video.

I couldn t get all the way through it. The cringe factor is high on this one.

Edit: this was just recommended to me. Is she looking to replicate Emelia Hartford?

https://youtu.be/K_VHkFpSZjg?si=QZe1nypN5wKOiA4u

Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48


Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48
Me too, a bit too sickly for me.

Boobs half out in the thumbnail too, although I see that one is different to the one I saw when I watched it.


Downward

5,628 posts

131 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Mezzanine said:
Unreal that your awards list does not give one mention to Shmee!

How times have changed.
He’s not a young blonde good looking lady though is he ?

Downward

5,628 posts

131 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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You Tube must pay well if folks are going full time.

How much must the AA umbrella earn and spend on cars, mods and trips while still paying themselves a decent wage ?


F166

124 posts

42 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Archie leaving the UK, off to Dubai or Portugal or the Nurburgring..


RB Will

10,805 posts

268 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Downward said:
You Tube must pay well if folks are going full time.

How much must the AA umbrella earn and spend on cars, mods and trips while still paying themselves a decent wage ?
Guess Jayemm is best placed to fill you in, I can only estimate from bits I've seen.

Another PHer who does Youtube full time did a video relatively recently showing his earnings. I know it isnt as simple as x views = x money but he has 350-400k subs, historically hasn't done ads / product placement. and off 70milion views has had £245k back from it. aid he could probably double what he gets per video if he did product placements / sponsorships.
Sure I saw Matt Armstrong saying that each add he does is worth thousands, and things like AG1, Car Vertical etc often give you ongoing income as you get a proportion of each sale using your code.

So I can only imagine someone like Auto Alex with about a million subs over the main and V2 channel, doing 2-3 vids a week and all the sponsorships is doing alright. Up to about 140million views so thick end of £500k there just in views alone in the last couple years maybe. Plus they do loads of merch, and the shows, and the podcast.

Downward

5,628 posts

131 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Ah yeah forgot about the shows which is a nice little earner. And TDC raffle off cars so this must be profitable.

And Beer52 sponsor everyone.


Garemberg

466 posts

117 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Janluke said:
It was arguably the least entertaining of his output but if it turns out there's nothing wrong with it I'm really happy for him
Same here, do love a bit of NEV, my wife and i both cheered when he got that old floood damaged Bentley going.

ThomW

1,921 posts

56 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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ChocolateFrog said:
UKsandman said:
614-HSO said:
What a nice feel good video.

I couldn t get all the way through it. The cringe factor is high on this one.

Edit: this was just recommended to me. Is she looking to replicate Emelia Hartford?

https://youtu.be/K_VHkFpSZjg?si=QZe1nypN5wKOiA4u

Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48


Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48
Me too, a bit too sickly for me.

Boobs half out in the thumbnail too, although I see that one is different to the one I saw when I watched it.
I didn't see anything sickly in that, just pure real emotion. The GNX was clearly her genuine dream car, no attractive woman would ugly cry like that on camera by choice rofl

614-HSO

1,832 posts

76 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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WelshGTI said:
WarrenB said:
Just to try and bring this back on track...

When she was on the Behind the Glass podcast with Sam she mentioned she'd gone 'full time on Instagram', this was well before she started her YouTube Channel.

I see a lot of the #VanLife brigade 'full time' on Instagram too, as well as a good number of other 'short form' creators. How do they monetize Instagram? Or is it just brand deals? Surely it's not enough to justify leaving paid employment?
Brand deals. You would be surprised what some brands pay to get featured.
Was that the one where they suggested she should do Only Fans? rolleyes

I seem to remember Alex Choi saying something a couple of years ago that he was able to make more from Snapchat and Instagram than on Youtube, which is why he stopped doing Youtube and only uploaded a video a occasionally.

Downward said:
Mezzanine said:
Unreal that your awards list does not give one mention to Shmee!

How times have changed.
He s not a young blonde good looking lady though is he ?
The awards would be for the previous year, as I said, Tim would have likely won (imo) in previous years.

ThomW said:
ChocolateFrog said:
UKsandman said:
614-HSO said:
What a nice feel good video.

I couldn t get all the way through it. The cringe factor is high on this one.

Edit: this was just recommended to me. Is she looking to replicate Emelia Hartford?

https://youtu.be/K_VHkFpSZjg?si=QZe1nypN5wKOiA4u

Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48


Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48
Me too, a bit too sickly for me.

Boobs half out in the thumbnail too, although I see that one is different to the one I saw when I watched it.
I didn't see anything sickly in that, just pure real emotion. The GNX was clearly her genuine dream car, no attractive woman would ugly cry like that on camera by choice rofl
We don't usually agree, but I agree with you here, I didn't see anything cringy about the video, when she was continuing to cry it was clear it was time to stop filming, but you could tell there was no set-up etc involved.


thetapeworm

13,741 posts

267 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Doofus said:
DanielSan said:
WPA said:
TDC were at one point driving like clowns on the road in the video on first cars
They're spinning the wheels out of a junction in a 1.6 Golf and a 1.25 Fiesta. It's more achievement to get either to spin up than a danger to anyone even in the closest possible vicinity
It's not actually hard to get any manual FWD car to spin its wheels.

ChocolateFrog

34,954 posts

201 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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614-HSO said:
WelshGTI said:
WarrenB said:
Just to try and bring this back on track...

When she was on the Behind the Glass podcast with Sam she mentioned she'd gone 'full time on Instagram', this was well before she started her YouTube Channel.

I see a lot of the #VanLife brigade 'full time' on Instagram too, as well as a good number of other 'short form' creators. How do they monetize Instagram? Or is it just brand deals? Surely it's not enough to justify leaving paid employment?
Brand deals. You would be surprised what some brands pay to get featured.
Was that the one where they suggested she should do Only Fans? rolleyes

I seem to remember Alex Choi saying something a couple of years ago that he was able to make more from Snapchat and Instagram than on Youtube, which is why he stopped doing Youtube and only uploaded a video a occasionally.

Downward said:
Mezzanine said:
Unreal that your awards list does not give one mention to Shmee!

How times have changed.
He s not a young blonde good looking lady though is he ?
The awards would be for the previous year, as I said, Tim would have likely won (imo) in previous years.

ThomW said:
ChocolateFrog said:
UKsandman said:
614-HSO said:
What a nice feel good video.

I couldn t get all the way through it. The cringe factor is high on this one.

Edit: this was just recommended to me. Is she looking to replicate Emelia Hartford?

https://youtu.be/K_VHkFpSZjg?si=QZe1nypN5wKOiA4u

Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48


Edited by UKsandman on Sunday 23 November 20:48
Me too, a bit too sickly for me.

Boobs half out in the thumbnail too, although I see that one is different to the one I saw when I watched it.
I didn't see anything sickly in that, just pure real emotion. The GNX was clearly her genuine dream car, no attractive woman would ugly cry like that on camera by choice rofl
We don't usually agree, but I agree with you here, I didn't see anything cringy about the video, when she was continuing to cry it was clear it was time to stop filming, but you could tell there was no set-up etc involved.

Which is fine but I don't really want to see it.

ThomW

1,921 posts

56 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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ChocolateFrog said:
Which is fine but I don't really want to see it.
Fantastic because nobody is forcing you watch this free content!

Mikebentley

8,574 posts

168 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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ThomW said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Which is fine but I don't really want to see it.
Fantastic because nobody is forcing you watch this free content!
I find the whole super model girlfriend/wife thing a bit too sickly. It was nice that she clearly had a genuine dream car that wasn’t your stereotypical Ferrari or similar. It was also clear that her saying “you can’t afford this etc” showed her as having a very grounded attitude and I genuinely will look at her differently in future.

skylarking808

1,180 posts

114 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Mikebentley said:
I find the whole super model girlfriend/wife thing a bit too sickly. It was nice that she clearly had a genuine dream car that wasn t your stereotypical Ferrari or similar. It was also clear that her saying you can t afford this etc showed her as having a very grounded attitude and I genuinely will look at her differently in future.
If you watch the video on her channel you can see her fix something on the car also. A genuine enthusiast.

Admittedly watching newly weds on video is a bit cringe, but it's great to see the joy cars can bring - whatever your budget.

WPA

14,556 posts

142 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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thetapeworm said:
Can I just say whilst not a fan of Taylor, that part with the spring laugh

And yes I know it is dangerous

XJ8Owner

59 posts

53 months

Monday 24th November 2025
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Janluke said:
king arthur said:
Smollet said:
oobster said:
Enjoyed the Not Economically Viable episode tonight with the Copart 1999 Porsche Carerra 4, I seem to enjoy his channel more when he s in his workshop and not in the driveway of his house.
He never did find what was burnt.
Would be interesting to know how that car came to be at Copart. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with it - is his theory that it was part of divorce proceedings and deliberately sabotaged by the owner to spite the other party plausible?
It was arguably the least entertaining of his output but if it turns out there's nothing wrong with it I'm really happy for him
Given the likely crooked background of Mat Armstrong's M3, I'd hope he goes over that car with a fine toothcomb. Seems to be something very suspect. "E3GBB" is listed as a blue 1999 Porsche, MOT expired in 2009. How's that work? The plate was retained by the seller who just happened to have another 1999 blue Porsche that had been dead for 16 years? The theory about deliberately reducing the value of assets because of a divorce would be suggesting Contempt of Court shenanigans. A 1999 run of the mill 996 in a dull colour isn't worth all that much to risk getting found out because of a fuse. Given the private plate has ended up on another 1999 Porsche that handily seems very similar, I would be thinking along the lines of business, assets, bailiffs and a car dealer ("transactions at an undervalue").

Smollet

16,167 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th November 2025
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Chris Slix’s latest podcast is rather different. He’s purchased a Mercedes V12(M120) that forms the basis of the Pagani engine and is trying to bring it up to the same spec. 750bhp and 7500rpm on a budget. So far the engine cost £3k

WPA

14,556 posts

142 months

Tuesday 25th November 2025
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Smollet said:
Chris Slix s latest podcast is rather different. He s purchased a Mercedes V12(M120) that forms the basis of the Pagani engine and is trying to bring it up to the same spec. 750bhp and 7500rpm on a budget. So far the engine cost £3k
It was a video and not a podcast but It looks an interesting project

Smollet

16,167 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th November 2025
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WPA said:
It was a video and not a podcast but It looks an interesting project
Semantics. You know exactly what I meant and that’s what really matters. Tbh to me they’re basically the same thing

Edited by Smollet on Tuesday 25th November 09:00