The Most Interesting Car Throttle Facts From An Amazing 2015

The cars

2015 saw us gain access to more awesome machinery than ever before. We’ve driven supercars, luxury land yachts, superminis, cult classics and everything in between.

The most expensive new car we plonked our bottoms in was the Bentley Mulsanne, which at £232,000 literally costs as much as a house. However, that was pipped to the ‘most expensive’ post by the 1958 Skoda 1100 OHC race car - it’s one of the last ones in existence, and we were trusted to whip it around a wet track. By stark contrast, the least expensive (new) car we drove was the redesigned Smart Fortwo. Interestingly, the Smart post was one of the most-read reviews of the year, proving that it’s not just big horsepower sports cars you guys find interesting.

The most powerful car driven by CT was an 800hp BMW E30 that Alex drove for a video, which was followed by the 697bhp Dodge Challenger Hellcat, which Adnan was lucky enough to boot about a track during this year’s Gumball rally. At the other end of the scale it’s the Smart again; its 71bhp 999Cc three-pot was both the smallest and least powerful engine in anything we drove.

The manufacturers

Whenever we write a post we tag relevant manufacturers to help power our Trending feature, and for the second year in a row, BMW is the manufacturer we talked about more than any other. Over the last 365 days we wrote about BMW 170 times, with Ford in second place in 136 articles, followed closely by Porsche on 133. Honda was the biggest climber, jumping from 11th to 6th this year, thanks largely to the new NSX and Civic Type R - it’s been quite a year for the Japanese manufacturer.

When it comes to cars in the Garage, BMW is again the most popular manufacturer. There are currently 1838 BMWs parked on CT, followed by 1602 Fords and 1472 Volkswagens.

Most followed CT accounts

At the end of the year we introduced the much-anticipated ‘Follow’ feature to the site, allowing you to follow the people and brands you care about, ensuring you never miss content you want to see. Speedhunters has been the runaway success so far, already amassing over 12,000 followers. Here are the top 10 most-followed accounts on Car Throttle:

1. Speedhunters - 12,484 followers
2. The Smoking Tire - 8813
3. Stanceworks - 7746
4. Shmee150 - 7547
5. Evo - 7473
6. Vehicle Virgins - 6987
7. Road & Track Magazine - 6771
8. Petrolicious - 6328
9. Auto Express - 6174
10. Alex Kersten - 6165

Headlines

Most words: 25
If You Want To Advertise A Car, Giving It A ‘Cameo’ In A Stan Lee Video Isn’t A Bad Way To Go About It

Most characters: 120
A Parking Valet Just Crashed This Priceless Ferrari 250 California Spyder After Confusing The Brake With The Accelerator

Looking at the average headlines, we can see that those two were particularly extreme; the average number of words in a headline was 12, with an average of 65 characters.

Top users by score

To reward you guys for uploading awesome content, other users can give you a point if they like what you’ve posted. As 2015 draws to a close, here are the top five users, excluding staff, ranked by score alone.

1. Arjunks - 78,050
2. JDM_Doge - 66.898
3. Ahmad Saade - 50,927
4. YellowBird - 49,331
5. GeoBaz - 39,344

Top users by comment score

Your comment score isn’t displayed publicly, but our system saves every point you get. We thought you’d get a kick out of seeing who has the most comment points, so here are the top five users (excluding staff), ranked by comment score!

1. Melons - 28,396
2. cragster101 - 26,497
3. Daniele - 20,130
4. Carlos - 16,486
5. Freddie Skeates - 14,864

Top users by comment count

It might’ve been fairly close at the top of the comment score charts, but Melons runs away with the comment count title. Showing incredible dedication to the platform and his moderating duties, he amassed an incredible 12,644 comments at an average of nearly 35 comments per day. Here’s the rest of the top five users by comment count!

1. Melons - 12,644 comments
2. chadkake - 8440
3. Sam Stone - 8033
4. AllOfTheCars - 6623
5. Mr.PurpleV12 - 6377

We can’t wait to see what 2016 brings!