Doug DeMuro
Co-founder, Cars & Bids. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Doug DeMuro is an automotive reviewer, author, and entrepreneur. He hosts a popular car review channel on YouTube and co-founded the vehicle auction platform Cars & Bids.
3shows
4appearances
84statements
29resolved
20supported
3contradicted
69%fully supported
60said about them ↓ Everything Doug DeMuro said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
DeMuro: Automakers Secretly Add Horsepower To Review Vehicles Via 'Press Finish'
“There is an option code that most automakers have but hide from their window stickers called press finish, and there is dispute about what that is. Some automakers, there is absolutely no question that press finish adds power. Absolutely no doubt, like they've…”
DeMuro: Legacy automakers have basically caught up to Tesla on self-driving
“I don't find Tesla self-driving to be like considerably better. Now that I've been on It's other cars. Every, basically everybody has caught up.”
DeMuro: Porsche Digital's Online Car Auction Site Marqued Is Fledgling
“Porsche has a business right now an auction business called marked that they're running and as a, from Porsche digital, and it's fledgling to say the least.”
DeMuro: Creator affinity converts marketplace traffic far better than ad spend
“You can't just throw money at trying to get an audience. It's not that easy. And having an audience where people love the dude who's at the top and are fans and want to be a part of his business, that makes it even easier to like convert them to real traffic a…”
DeMuro: Analog Exotic V12 Cars Will Appreciate Rapidly As EVs Dominate
“As cars start to become more electric, more, sort of, the all-electric cars sort of have a similar shape because of aerodynamics and fuel range Gas-powered, old-school, wedge-shaped, exotic V-twelves are gonna be, like, the cars that continue to go up.”
Ferrari Refused Long-Term Battery Support for the Hybrid LaFerrari
“Ferrari has already said that the technology is old, all the plug-in stuff, we don't want to be any part of the LaFerrari.”
DeMuro: Investing heavily in single-creator businesses is a crazy model
“They're making massive investments into businesses that have dudes like me who could just go off the rails one day. And I think that is a crazy business model”
DeMuro: Cadillac Super Cruise outperforms Tesla, which isn't top-four anymore
“The Cadillac system lets you be totally hands off. Tesla system is not even an, I would say in the top four anymore.”
DeMuro calls the Porsche Carrera GT the greatest driving car ever
“And I truly, truly believe that it is, and I've driven them all, the greatest driving car that has ever been made.”
DeMuro: Car reviews remain evergreen for five years despite missing launch access
“Even if I'm not up on release day with the car, because the automaker didn't invite me to the press launch, doesn't really matter. I can go get it from a dealer when it comes to dealers, 60 days later, and the video is going to be evergreen for five years, the…”
DeMuro: All other electric hypercars have been horrible sales failures
“All the other electric hypercars have been horrible sales failures.”
DeMuro: Tesla Roadster will not launch anywhere near $200,000
“I don't think the Roadster is going to come anywhere near 200, just based on, we've got a lot of inflation, Elon's missed those, Tesla's missed those price targets before, et cetera.”
DeMuro: Mercedes Is Canceling AMG 43 Models Over EU Noise Regulations
“Mercedes is canceling all of their 43 AMG cars, which are actually quite popular here in the States. They're very popular. The GLC. Those are all going away. And the reason is that they do not comply with EU noise regulations as of next summer.”
DeMuro: High-end video production traps creators and limits content volume
“The really expensive DSLRs hanging off of drones, you can do that stuff, but it slows you down and it limits the amount of content and you can do. And then you end up hating your life. Then three, four years down the road, you're kind of married to that. Your …”
DeMuro: Content Creator Merchandise Is A Hamster Wheel, Not A Business
“So many of my fellow content creators sell merch, but I feel like that's just sort of the hamster wheel. Like you sell merch, you do your videos, you sell merch, you do your videos, but that's not a, that's in my mind, that's not like a business. Like, yes, it…”
DeMuro: Almost 30 online car auction copycats launched and failed
“We, I would say, 30 other auction, car auction, online car auction sites popped up in the last couple years, and 29 of them have failed, or 27, and the other three are barely hanging.”
DeMuro: Car enthusiasts will resist future modeled on Tesla Model 3
“I think the model three is kind of the preview of where cars are going to go in the future. And I think car enthusiasts will be dragged Kicking and screaming into this world.”
DeMuro: Electric Vehicles Eliminate Driving Dynamics As A Purchasing Differentiator
“All electric cars pretty much drive the same. And so nobody really cares that much about the driving experience.”
DeMuro: Cadillac Super Cruise is the best driver-assist system in the business
“Cadillac's self-drive, driver-assist technology is called Super Cruise, and it's the best in the business, no question.”
Enzo Ferrari Hated His Customers and Sold Road Cars to Fund Racing
“Whereas Enzo very famously, he just wanted to race and he hated his customers, his road car customers deeply. It wasn't his thing. He just wanted to race. He only sold road cars to kind of finance racing.”
Doug DeMuro: The Cayman GT4 RS Is the Best Modern Porsche
“Yeah, I feel that way. But it's controversial because the nine 11 is the Porsche.”
Porsche Moving Past the 911 Mirrored Jaguar and Mercedes Trends
“And the Jaguar E-Type had just been replaced. That was the big competitor. It was another sports car that had been replaced by the XJS, which was now a V eight comfortable automatic transmission car. Mercedes-Benz did the same thing with the SL class. It went …”
Porsche Shifted Its Pure Sports Car Focus to Mid-Engine Models
“Now the nine 11 is kind of playing more of a luxury car, like touring car role almost, where, you know, with the special colors and the stitching and all that, and it seems like the more Porsche has focused more of its sort of true sports car efforts on those …”
The other half of the tape: Doug DeMuro's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 56 times in 28 episodes across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 9John Coogan 9David Rosenthal 9Ben Gilbert 8Jordi Hays 5Jeremy Giffon 2Suleman "Suli" Ali 1Shaan Puri 1
Statements about Doug DeMuro, by other people (4)
Rosenthal: Doug DeMuro succeeded by targeting family SUV buyers over enthusiasts
“The beauty of Doug, his key insight, Was, you know, all the other car YouTubers are making, making videos for car enthusiasts. He makes videos for, like, people who need to buy a family SUV.”
Parr: DeMuro sold majority of Cars & Bids for $40M
“And then recently you sold the majority of the business to churning group for around forty million dollars. I believe when it was only like two or three years old.”
Doug DeMuro's Cars & Bids Auction Site Could Become a Nine-Figure Business
“So he is a car guy with, at this .2 or three million subscribers, and he has an auction website for cars that could potentially be a nine-figure company, I actually think.”
Gilbert: Acquired's Porsche Episode Reached 400K YouTube Views
“We put up this episode with Doug, and it's gotten 400,000 views, and is adding another 6000 a day, which in big YouTuber land doesn't sound like much, but for us, It's multiple orders of magnitude over anything else we've ever done on the platform.”
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2025 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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2024 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2023 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| ACQUIREDLEDGER | Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 2 | 51 | 67% 12/18 | full record on Acquired → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 1 | 17 | 86% 6/7 | full record on TBPN → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 1 | 16 | 50% 2/4 | full record on My First Million → |