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James May drives America's cheapest new pick-up truck
LongPeople & Blogs
Published Oct 28, 2026
Views
3M
Likes
49K
Speed /h
45K
+24h
+896K
Early catch
Updated 02:15 AMBeat 90% of videos its age, 7 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- 6×
- Views/h now
- 37K
- Channel size
- 452K
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 2.6M
- Best hour
- +88.3K
- At 24 hours
- 1.4M
- At 7 days
- –
51 of 51 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 67 / 100
- Category percentile
- 99 / 100
- ×base
- ×6
- Channel typical
- 452K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- steady
- Acceleration
- 0.83×
- Momentum
- ×1.98
- Decay
- 0.17
- Speed half-life
- 141d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 1.83%
- Comments per 1k views
- 3.07
- Engagement rate
- 2.14%
- Views per subscriber
- 2.74×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Category chart | #21 | Oct 29 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #27 | Oct 29 |
| New Zealand | Category chart | #30 | Oct 29 |
| Denmark | Category chart | #46 | Oct 29 |
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From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 28, 2026, 5:00 PM
- Duration
- 13:47
- Category
- People & Blogs
- Audio language
- English (en-GB)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Lifestyle
- Vehicle
Title and description in 21 languages
- Arabic
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
Tags (20)
- James May
- James Gin
- James May Gin
- James May cooking
- Top Gear
- The Grand Tour
- James May drinks
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Richard Hammond
- James may truck
- slate truck
- slate auto
- electric truck
- cybertruck
- EV
- James May EV
- Slate automotive
- mkbhd
- jay leno
- cheap truck
Description
🍸 Buy my gin: https://jamesmaysgin.com/Slate James test drives the straightforward, basic, $25k Slate truck -and concludes it’s a welcome return to the original pick-up philosophy - a vehicle you could jet wash on the inside. But would he buy one? Filmed and edited by Lucy. 🎥 Subscribe to my newsletter for behind the scenes: https://jamesmaysgin.com/WantMore 👕 Check out my merch: https://jamesmaysgin.com/Merch 📸 Follow me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jamesmaygin/ Buy James Gin in store: 🇬🇧 https://www.jamesgin.com/pages/find 🇺🇸 https://us.jamesgin.com/pages/findShow all
🍸 Buy my gin: https://jamesmaysgin.com/Slate James test drives the straightforward, basic, $25k Slate truck -and concludes it’s a welcome return to the original pick-up philosophy - a vehicle you could jet wash on the inside. But would he buy one? Filmed and edited by Lucy. 🎥 Subscribe to my newsletter for behind the scenes: https://jamesmaysgin.com/WantMore 👕 Check out my merch: https://jamesmaysgin.com/Merch 📸 Follow me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jamesmaygin/ Buy James Gin in store: 🇬🇧 https://www.jamesgin.com/pages/find 🇺🇸 https://us.jamesgin.com/pages/find
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API