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r/CarTalkUK

UK-based car enthusiast community. r/CarTalkUK is the definitive subreddit for British petrolheads and inquisitive car drivers alike! Founded 2013 · 684K members

685.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.4K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
685.5Kmembers
7.4Kbest post
2.3Kmost comments
1.3Kposts 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.

31% 24% 22% 15%
Text 31% Image 24% Question 22% Gallery 15% Video 4% Link 3%

The topics it labels

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

Advice 689 Misc Question 152 Humour 107 Spotted 51 News 47 Self-Promotion 30 Tools/External Sites 9 Mod Approved 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Should we bring back colourful cars?

↑ 7.4K 💬 909 image 2023

Best plate I’ve seen in a while

↑ 6.2K 💬 152 image 2022

Who can I call when two parked cars are blocking an entire street?

↑ 3.9K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Used Car Prices

↑ 3.8K 💬 414 image 2022

After a good CRY, you need a HUG.

↑ 3.7K 💬 58 image 2023

After many people advising against it, here’s my 20yr old Aston Martin vantage that’s the same age as me 😇

↑ 3.7K 💬 834 image 2026

Somehow I think the guy in the BMW X7 knew what he was doing... Mine is the little one!

↑ 3.6K 💬 401 image 2023

The joys of selling a car on Facebook Marketplace

↑ 3.4K 💬 391 image 2026

Picked up my new daily & very local runaround vehicle. The quadricycle (not a car) Citroen Ami

↑ 3.2K 💬 633 gallery 2022

Stop it.

↑ 3.1K 💬 476 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/CarTalkUK, in numbers

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

What is r/CarTalkUK?
r/CarTalkUK ("UK-based car enthusiast community") describes itself this way: r/CarTalkUK is the definitive subreddit for British petrolheads and inquisitive car drivers alike. It was founded in 2013 and has 684K members.
How many members does r/CarTalkUK have?
r/CarTalkUK has about 685.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 7.4K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/CarTalkUK?
"Should we bring back colourful cars?" reached 7.4K upvotes and 909 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/CarTalkUK.
What subreddits are similar to r/CarTalkUK?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/CarTalkUK?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are text posts and 24% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/CarTalkUK?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 18:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (934 avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (803 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/CarTalkUK?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/CarTalkUK has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/CarTalkUK, 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.