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Doug has his personal biases (as does everyone else), but does make an decent effort to be neutral (within his capabilities) while hitting his main points and r
by iotku 4y ago
Doug has his personal biases (as does everyone else), but does make an decent effort to be neutral (within his capabilities) while hitting his main points and remaining entertaining.
This [1] is a fairly great conversation with him which covers a lot of topics including the incentives [2] many other YouTubers/Car Journalists have (from getting flown out to launch events and the general pressures to not lose access to press cars by being too negative in a review)
That said, while I trust Doug far more than many reviewers he still has many relationships with car dealerships, often gets access to preproduction cars that he can't drive yet (but almost always does a full review when he can), and does have a car auction business so there's still room for that to have an effect on his judgement even if he's trying otherwise.
[1] https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y
[2] https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y?t=5155 https://youtu.be/pFGh-YqHT4Y?t=5155