10 Weird And Wonderful Facts About Car Throttle In 2016
Most upvoted comment
This honour goes to Quack, who clocked an astonishing 2880 upvotes for this comment on an article about Clarkson, Hammond and May’s new car show being named The Grand Tour. Good work!
Yep, it’s another Top Gear/Grand Tour-related entry! This one was by Connor Mclean, and with 2326 upvotes, it garnered more points than any other user post in 2016.
Most comments
Believe it or not, one CTzen has left over 26,000 comments this year. I was so stunned by this stat I genuinely had to ask our dev team to double check the figures. Kastriot Kalaba - we salute you, as that mad figure means you’ve been leaving on average 70 comments a day. That’s dedication!
Check out the full top 10 below. If you made it, give yourself a pat on the back.
Kastriot Kalaba - 26,082
Qian Li - 20,942
Flux (Capacitor)(CamaroSquad) - 17,918
Carlover100 - 17,050
Sojzim8 (the fast and the furrious) - 16,314
JenstheGTIfreak (pizza) - 15,796
RavenKnowWho - 15,726
Stubaru (Subie Maniac)(Saabaru Squad) - 14,889
TheCarGuy (Yugo Man)(Beetle Squad)(Hatchback Mafia) - 14,687
Chane Walker (HOLDEN SQUAD) - 13,804
Most talked about manufacturer
It seems we just can’t stop talking about BMW, as once again, the Bavarian manufacturer had more articles written about it by CT hacks over the year than any other car maker.
Porsche is a distant second, with Ford following closely behind in third.
The full top ten list can be seen below:
BMW - 123 articles
Porsche - 91 articles
Ford - 88 articles
Audi - 78 articles
Mercedes Benz - 70 articles
Ferrari - 62 articles
Tesla - 60 articles
Mclaren - 50 articles
Honda - 45 articles
Lamborghini - 45 articles
BMW also had the distinction of being the most popular CT Garage manufacturer, with a staggering 5782 of the things ‘parked’ in our virtual car park 2016.
Here’s the top 10 list:
BMW - 5782
Ford - 5223
Volkswagen - 4073
Mercedes Benz - 3332
Honda - 3243
Toyota - 2938
Nissan - 2806
Mazda - 2628
Chevrolet - 2294
Subaru - 2267
We like making our headlines nice and descriptive here at CT, and that means they can end up rather long from time to time. Here are the longest in 2016:
By character count - 107
Tied with:
By word count - 22
In a horsepower-heavy year that saw us driving the facelifted Nissan GT-R, a McLaren 650S and an Audi R8 V10 Plus to name but a few, we did still drive a few more modestly powered cars.
The prize for the least powerful car of the year goes to the humble but loveable VW Up I drove a few months ago, with 74bhp available from a 1.0-litre, three-cylinder engine. The most powerful gong goes to the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, which our man Alex was given a drive in before taking his passenger lap of the Nurburgring in the new Chiron. The lucky bastard.
With 1183bhp from its 8.0-litre W16, it has over 1000bhp more power on tap than the little VW, and is nearly 16 times as powerful. Wow.
I expected this honour to go to the Honda Civic Type R prototype news, or perhaps something Grand Tour-related. But no, the most viewed news story on CT in 2016 was actually about the demise of Scion.
189,831 people clicked on the post to read about the not terribly surprising decision by Toyota to cull its yoof oriented brand.
Of course, it was Alex, with…I’ve no idea actually - we lost count.
Comments
many ctzens also left this year
What do you mean left?
Reading the top amount of comments be like: Must. Type. More.
You forgot the fact that Car Throttle is the best car-based social media platform to ever exist in 2016 ;)
Indeed !
Its been a great success
If only Clarkson knew…
Very true!
Wait, it’s bigger than DRIVETRIBE, right?
How many comments did I have?
I have been here for roughly half of a year so I would at least have a 1,000… maybe?
BMW is showing the power of Negative Marketing ^_^
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Good ol Black ops
KastriotKalaba Congratulations for the most comments of this year!
QianLi is second.
We can only imagine how much comments RavenKnowWho (#RIP) would have had if he haven’t left…
Yes, what a pity…
I am totally not trying to clock more comments now… That would be ridiculous!
Most breakdowns for a CT staff member, didn’t know that was even a thing…