Doug DeMuro’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Douglas DeMuro (born May 22, 1988) is an American automotive columnist, reviewer, author, and YouTuber. He writes articles for the Autotrader.com blog Oversteer and posts car reviews on his YouTube channel, which has over three million subscribers. In the past, he has written for the car websites The Truth About Cars and Jalopnik.

Early life and education

DeMuro was born and raised in Denver, Colorado.

He attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in economics, and met his now wife while he was working as a Resident Advisor there. He remained in the Atlanta area with his wife until 2014.

Career

DeMuro’s first job was at Porsche’s North American headquarters in Atlanta as a “vehicle allocation manager”. In addition to this, he wrote articles on Autotrader.com. In 2013, after one year at Porsche, DeMuro quit his job in order to focus on automotive writing. Between January and September 2013, he wrote articles for the website The Truth About Cars. DeMuro began writing for automotive website Jalopnik in April 2013. He wrote two books that were published a few months later. Plays With Cars contains personal car stories and the e-book From My Perspective is about DeMuro’s perspective on things unrelated to cars. He also wrote a blog named PlaysWithCars in 2013.

While working for Jalopnik, DeMuro wrote columns, answered letters from readers, shot videos for his YouTube channel, and occasionally reviewed cars. Furthermore, he bought interesting second-hand cars recommended by readers, which he then reviewed and wrote columns about. Among those cars was a 2004 Ferrari 360 Modena DeMuro purchased in January 2014 with a loan. He kept the car for one year.

In 2014, DeMuro moved from Atlanta to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeMuro started writing again for The Truth About Cars the next year, while still working for Jalopnik. At the recommendation of readers, DeMuro bought a 2007 Aston Martin Vantage in January 2016 with a “bumper-to-bumper” warranty, of which he documented his ownership. Later that year, DeMuro’s new book Bumper to Bumper was released. Some of his columns and reviews were published by the Philadelphia Media Network in 2014 and by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2015.

In the summer of 2016, DeMuro moved to the newly-created Autotrader.com car blog Oversteer, of which he became the editor. He kept writing articles and columns, but started focusing more on filming and writing car reviews. He has reviewed a wide array of cars, mainly from the 1970s to the present. Those cars include supercars like the Ford GT, the Bugatti Chiron, the McLaren F1, and the Ferrari F40; but also new, innovative, and quirky cars including the Tesla Model 3, the Maserati Ghibli, and the BMW Isetta, as well as cars widely considered to be the worst, such as the Trabant and Yugo.

In a typical review, DeMuro first addresses exterior and interior “quirks and features”, then drives the car, and concludes with giving the car a score between 10 and 100. That score, which he calls the “DougScore”, is based on the scores in ten separate categories. Most of the cars DeMuro reviews are not press cars, but are owned by dealerships and individuals. His YouTube channel has amassed over three million subscribers, as of July 2019.

He started a second YouTube channel called More Doug DeMuro in August 2018, which has over 500,000 subscribers as of July 2019. More Doug DeMuro features more opinion-based and vlog-style content, as well as question and answer videos and videos of house tours, which he carries out in a similar way to how he reviews cars.

In June 2017, DeMuro appeared in the Jay Leno’s Garage season three episode Larger Than Life, in which he tried to recognize cars while being blindfolded. He worked with Jay Leno again in March 2019, when he reviewed Leno’s McLaren F1.

Personal life

DeMuro is married and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2014 through 2018, when he moved to the San Diego metropolitan area.

DeMuro has owned over 25 cars, many of which have appeared on his channel. His car history includes a 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon, a 2004 Ferrari 360 Modena, a 1995 AM General Hummer, a 2006 Range Rover, a 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R, a 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Coupe, a 1997 Land Rover Defender, a 2012 Mercedes-AMG E63 station wagon, a 2001 Audi A4, a 1997 Dodge Viper GTS, and a 1999 Mercedes-Benz G500 Cabriolet. His first car was a 1996 Volvo 850 Turbo sedan that his parents bought for him in September 2004. In September 2018, DeMuro took delivery of a 2005 Ford GT from Karl Brauer, one of his bosses at Autotrader. Karl had sold the 2005 GT to DeMuro so he could make room for his 2019 Ford GT.