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r/Cars - For Car Enthusiasts. r/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on the Internet. We're Reddit's central hub for vehicle-related discussion, industry news, reviews, projects, DIY guides, advice, stories, and more. Founded 2008 · 7.4M members

7.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 44.9K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
7.4Mmembers
44.9Kbest post
5.9Kmost comments
647posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

72% 19%
Link 72% Text 19% Question 7% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Will pee damage tires?

↑ 44.9K 💬 3.7K question 2016

Just accidentally put diesel in my car. How fucked am I?

↑ 39.5K 💬 2.4K question 2018

Will my husband divorce me if I dehydrate tomatoes in his F-150 truck?

↑ 25.4K 💬 2K question 2021

Nevada Passes Law Making It Illegal To Drive Slowly (below the speed limit) In The Fast Lane

↑ 25K 💬 1.4K link 2017

Can automaker please stop replacing buttons with touch screens

↑ 23.9K 💬 2.1K text 2020

New Tesla Roadster claims to do 0-60 in 1.9 secs, 620 mile highway range

↑ 21.8K 💬 3.4K link 2017

Nissan CEO 'blasted' for 90 minutes at dealer meeting. Dealers have a wide range of complaints ranging for weak brand image to poor product.

↑ 18.3K 💬 2.4K link 2020

I mystery shopped a KIA dealership. I get why they have a bad name now.

↑ 17.7K 💬 2.1K text 2018

Ford F-150 Pickup Trucks Recalled Because Their Headlights Are Too Bright

↑ 17.4K 💬 1.5K link 2020

Petition to implement a refresher course for drivers over the age of 70

↑ 16.9K 💬 896 link 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/cars, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/cars?
r/cars ("r/Cars - For Car Enthusiasts") describes itself this way: r/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on the Internet. We're Reddit's central hub for vehicle-related discussion, industry news, reviews, projects, DIY guides, advice, stories, and more. It was founded in 2008 and has 7.4M members.
How many members does r/cars have?
r/cars has about 7.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 647 of its posts; the biggest reached 44.9K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/cars?
"Will pee damage tires?" reached 44.9K upvotes and 3.7K comments in 2016, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/cars.
What subreddits are similar to r/cars?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/cars?
Of the posts we hold, 72% are link posts and 19% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/cars?
Across 647 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (11.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 23:00 UTC (8.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (7.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/cars?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/cars has 14.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 176 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/cars, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.