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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doug DeMuro is entertaining sort of, but he’s a bumbling idiot. He’s all about “feel” and “impressions” of “quirks and features.” His knowledge is about an inch deep, and he does not try to go any further.

Check out Alex on Autos on YouTube. He’s a dork who wears a mechanic’s denim shirt, and he knows his shit. He is very detailed, he does thorough, objective comparisons.[/quote]

TTTHHHHIIIISSSSS is a gross oversimplification of Doug DeMuro. For a time I could not stand Doug DeMuro because of the way he talks. But he doesn't go into the techy stuff because his audience is more focused on the experience and feel of driving a car. He has experience reviewing a wide range of cars and is usually pretty spot-on in capturing the salient characteristics of a car.

Alex is cool, but most of the "review" is just verbal regurgitation of specifications. If a car has 1 inch more rear-seat legroom than another car, what does that tell me about how well a tall person can fit? No one knows unless you try to sit in it. A lot of other things affect rear-seat roominess, such as seat cushion height, seat back angle, roofline, size of the door opening, etc. When he does get into the car, he is still just continuously reading from a script, glancing away constantly to get his next bullet point. Compare their review of the GLB, a car that a lot of people are interested in because it's one of the smallest SUVs with an available 3rd row on the market:

Doug immediately understands the main draw of this car and dives right in at the start of his review, literally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6D4bRXj0jg&t=154s

Meanwhile, Alex follows his rigid review format and doesn't get to it until much later in his review, and surprise, he doesn't even review a car that has the 3rd-row seat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxo2k_xzrU&t=537s

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