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r/whatcarshouldIbuy

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

803.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.5K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
803.2Kmembers
4.5Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
1.5Kposts 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.

44% 29% 14% 8%
Text 44% Question 29% Link 14% Image 8% Gallery 6%

What the ceiling looks like

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

New Car and Old Car Market

↑ 4.5K 💬 316 image 2026

Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer Than Ever—and Remaking the Auto Industry

↑ 711 💬 268 link 2026

Cars that are road head friendly?

↑ 472 💬 181 image 2026

This trend needs to stop… just bring back knobs, buttons and switches 😕

↑ 436 💬 74 image 2026

How many of you own a dependable car that’s not Toyota or Honda?

↑ 340 💬 1.6K question 2026

Pay your local wreck yard a visit before buying a used car

↑ 290 💬 123 text 2026

‘I just want what I paid for’: Ontario man says $112,000 truck has been in shop for months

↑ 261 💬 103 link 2026

At what point are Toyotas no long worth the price?

↑ 210 💬 333 question 2026

Diesel fuel is obviously expensive right now (So. California), but are people really selling their diesel vehicles dirt cheap? Would this be a good t…

↑ 202 💬 164 image 2026

Would you rather own a boring car for 10 years or a car you love for 5?

↑ 174 💬 69 question 2026

Communities its size

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

r/whatcarshouldIbuy, in numbers

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

How many members does r/whatcarshouldIbuy have?
r/whatcarshouldIbuy has about 803.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 4.5K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/whatcarshouldIbuy?
"New Car and Old Car Market" reached 4.5K upvotes and 316 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/whatcarshouldIbuy.
What subreddits are similar to r/whatcarshouldIbuy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/Archaeology, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/whatcarshouldIbuy?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are text posts and 29% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/whatcarshouldIbuy?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 15:00 UTC (268 avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (61 avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (53 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/whatcarshouldIbuy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/whatcarshouldIbuy has 87 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 602 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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