A Lotus leaves Hoovies Garage as the hooptie lot gets complicated

Tyler Hoover's dealership update takes him from auction-yard electrical gremlins to a garage full of repair bills.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

I Sold My Rare Supercar After My Car Dealership Is Still Failing To Make A Profit.

Selling more than twenty cars sounds like a productive month. Tyler Hoover says his used-car dealership came away with just $1,800 after expenses and losses, which gives his latest auction trip a rather different atmosphere.

His only upload this week opens with the sale of his Lotus Esprit V8. From there, the Hoovies Garage update becomes a detailed tour of the gap between buying a cheap car and having a cheap car worth selling. A Buick Regal needed costly repairs and a customer refund before returning to auction. A newer Kia Stinger is too expensive for the lot's brief. Even finding inventory means sorting through knocking engines, dead batteries and stuck seats.

The most memorable audition belongs to a Silverado whose instrument cluster goes haywire during testing. "I don't know if I need a mechanic for this one or a priest," Hoover says. Later, mechanic Daniel joins him for another test drive and a walk through the dealership's harder-to-shift stock. The video includes a sponsored segment.

Viewers are discussing refunds, auction judgment and whether the Buick might have been better kept as a shop car. Several return to that mechanic-or-priest line, a compact expression of the channel's particular buying philosophy.

The upload has reached roughly 470,000 views and is the channel's busiest video right now. The broken Rolls-Royce Ghost road trip remains active behind it, followed by the Ferrari purchase we covered earlier.

Subscribers held steady over the week. Daily views are currently well below their usual level, while nearby motoring channels have had mixed fortunes: Gas Monkey Garage and LegitStreetCars are running above their usual daily audiences. For Hoover, the week's most substantial addition is this unusually granular look at what happens after the auction hammer falls.

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The numbers

Here is how Hoovies Garage's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Dave's Auto Center

6,974,877

Gas Monkey Garage

4,390,284

WhistlinDiesel 1000

2,918,636

LegitStreetCars

2,125,017

TheStraightPipes

1,679,168

Hoovies Garage

804,791

Samcrac

639,784

POWERNATION

627,763

That Racing Channel

287,216

subscribers

1,660,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

544,512,603

views per day

43,984

typical day: 118,223

first-day views of each video posted this week

I Sold My Rare Supercar After My Car De…

325,333

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

TheStraightPipes

1,810,000

Gas Monkey Garage

1,810,000

POWERNATION

1,780,000

That Racing Channel

1,700,000

WhistlinDiesel 1000

1,680,000

Hoovies Garage

1,660,000

Samcrac

1,660,000

Dave's Auto Center

1,620,000

LegitStreetCars

1,580,000

As of October 20, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.