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 DeMuro in 2016 | ||||||||||
| Born | Douglas DeMuro (1988-05-22)May 22, 1988 (age 36) | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Emory University | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2012–present | |||||||||
| Children | 2 | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2013–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Automobiles | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 4.93 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 2.1 billion[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: March 1, 2025 | ||||||||||
| Website | dougdemuro | |||||||||
Douglas DeMuro (born May 22, 1988)[2][3] is an American YouTuber, author, columnist, writer, and Internet entrepreneur. DeMuro's focus is on the automotive industry; his car review-focusedYouTube channel has over 4.93 million subscribers as of March 2025.
In addition to his YouTube endeavors, DeMuro also runs the automobile selling website Cars & Bids, which allows individuals to purchase and sell vehicles in online auctions. He launched the business in 2020 after leaving his previous position as a writer and editor ofAutotrader.com car blogOversteer.
Previously, DeMuro wrote articles forThe Truth About Cars andJalopnik.
DeMuro was born and raised inDenver, Colorado,[2] where he attendedGeorge Washington High School. In 2009, DeMuro was featured inAutomobile for his hobby ofcar spotting.[4] He then went on to study atEmory University inAtlanta, Georgia, obtaining abachelor's degree in economics, and met his wife while he was working as aresident advisor there.[2][5] In 2024, DeMuro was named winner of Emory's 40 Under 40.[6][7]
DeMuro's first job was atPorsche's North American headquarters in Atlanta as a "vehicle allocation manager".[2] In addition to this, he wrote articles onAutotrader.com.[8] In 2013, after one year at Porsche, DeMuro quit his job in order to focus on automotive writing.[9] He wrote articles for three different car blogs:The Truth About Cars between January and September, his own blog calledPlaysWithCars throughout 2013, andJalopnik starting in April.[10][11][12] Furthermore, he wrote two books that were published in July 2013, namelyPlays With Cars containing personal car stories and thee-bookFrom My Perspective about DeMuro's perspective on things unrelated to cars.[13][14]
While working forJalopnik, DeMuro wrote columns, answered letters from readers, shot videos for his YouTube channel, and occasionally reviewed cars.[11] Furthermore, he bought interesting second-hand cars recommended by readers, which he then reviewed and wrote columns about. Among those cars was a 2004Ferrari 360 Modena DeMuro purchased in January 2014 with aloan. He kept the car for one year.[15][16]
In the summer of 2014, DeMuro moved from Atlanta toPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] DeMuro started writing again forThe Truth About Cars the next year, while still working forJalopnik.[10] At the recommendation of readers, DeMuro bought a 2007Aston Martin V8 Vantage in January 2016 with a "bumper-to-bumper" warranty, of which he documented his ownership.[17] Later that year, DeMuro's new bookBumper to Bumper was released.[18] Some of his columns and reviews were published by thePhiladelphia Media Network in 2014 and byThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2015.[19][20]
In the summer of 2016, DeMuro moved to the newly created Autotrader.com car blogOversteer, of which he became the editor.[9] He kept writing articles and columns, but started focusing more on filming and writing car reviews on YouTube. DeMuro has reviewed a wide array of cars on his channel, mainly from the 1970s to the present.[2] Those cars includesupercars like theFord GT, theBugatti Chiron, and theFerrari F40; but also new, innovative, and quirky cars including theTesla Model 3 and theBMW Isetta.[21][failed verification]
In a typical review, DeMuro first addresses exterior and interior "quirks and features", then drives the car, and concludes with giving the car a score between 10 and 100. That score, which he calls a "DougScore", is based on the scores in ten separate categories related to usability and fun. Most of the cars DeMuro reviews are not press cars, but are owned by dealerships and individuals; for a brief period, he also partnered with the car sharing companyTuro, where he would rent cars as he traveled based on a budget given to him by Turo and then review them.
The first car to receive the DougScore was a 2006third-generation Range Rover that was purchased fromCarMax inMarietta, Georgia, in December 2012.[2] The Range Rover was the subject of its own series of videos and articles where DeMuro recounted all of the repairs he had to make to the vehicle over his time owning it, aided by a six-year and 66,000-mile bumper to bumper warranty he purchased for $3,899; by the time the warranty expired, DeMuro's vehicle had received over $21,000 in repair work.[22]
His YouTube channel has amassed 4.8 million subscribers, as of April 2024.[23] DeMuro also started a second channel calledMore Doug DeMuro in August 2018, which has nearly 750,000 subscribers as of March 2023. It features more opinion-based and vlog-style content, as well as question and answer videos; DeMuro stopped updating the page regularly and combined it with his Cars & Bids channel in 2023.[24]
DeMuro appeared in theJay Leno's Garage season three episode "Larger Than Life", in which he tried to recognize cars while being blindfolded, in June 2017.[25][26] He worked with Leno again in March 2019, when he reviewed hisMcLaren F1.[27]
DeMuro left Autotrader.com to focus on a new venture which eventually grew into the car auction website Cars & Bids, which he had first conceived in 2019.[28][9] The website is aimed at cars for enthusiasts and only lists cars built in 1981 or later. The first car listed on the site was DeMuro's own 2012Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG Wagon;[9] in the years since, he has gone on to sell several more of his vehicles on the site. These vehicles were a 2018Kia Stinger GT2, which he purchased to replace the E 63 AMG wagon;[29] a 2020Land Rover Defender, which he bought to replace the Stinger and which was the first car DeMuro bought brand new for himself;[30] a 1994Audi RS2 Avant, which was imported from Japan via Canada;[31] and a 1998Mercedes-Benz A140, which was imported in 2023.[32]
The company reported 4,000 listed cars and US $75 million spent by purchasers during 2021.[33]
In January 2023,The Chernin Group acquired a majority stake in Cars & Bids forUS$37 million.[34][35]
DeMuro currently lives inSan Diego, California, with his wife, Joanna.[2][5][36] The couple have a son, born in 2021 and a second son born in 2023,[37] and aBearded Collie named Noodle, who frequently makes appearances in DeMuro's videos.[38][39]
