Doug the type of guy to clarify that he didn’t invent looking at cars

Doug is the kind of guy to open his garage door and say “yippie” at his own collection

Not sure who have had the rarest sight on that day - Ralph Loren driving his Bugatti Veyron or Doug DeMuro wearing a decent looking shirt.

Kinda incredible how good Doug is at telling stories. I thought there is no way i will be listening to list of 5 cars for 19 minutes and yet I am actually invested

"It was the coolest moment of my entire existence." Doug's kids when they're older: "What about when we were born?" Doug: "Not even close."

Doug is the type of guy to stalk a Citroën C4 cactus 2018 when he visits Europe and write down all of its quirks and features with a comically oversized pencil that he stores above his ear

The yellow Carrerra GT will be included mark my words 😂

that yellow carerra GT looked like it was parked outside the crack dealer's house

THIS… is one of my favorite episodes..!!! Doug, your passion and enthusiasm for cars is just awesome. Especially love this episode and so great to hear / know this side of how you got started. In a world of such scripted, “sponsored” and paid for Creators, your genuine person shines through here and on every program you’re a part of. Thank you!

Doug is the kind of guy to tell Ralph Lauren that he’s so legit 17:22

The Veyron is just one of those cars... legendary forever

This is, to me, by far, the most heartwarming video from Doug, because like for most of us, the car love and obsession started as a kid and it’s so nice to remember when I, for example, dreamed of having a Porsche Cayman /911 in Brazil and when seeing one, I would lose my sh** and ask my dad to follow the car. It was just so exciting and would make me bond with my dad and share the love of cars. Now I have my own Porsche and I share the joy when I see a kid taking pictures of my car even though, nowadays and here in Canada, it’s not as difficult to see a Cayman/911.

Doug is the type of guy to make a 4 minute intro explaining why he is qualified to see cars on the road before showing the cars he saw on the road.

Thanks for sharing! I never heard your Ralph Lauren story before. It's fun to see someone like yourself still getting excited for car spotting. I remember I as 15 years old and in Monaco for the 1st time on a family trip. We walked by the casino and I saw a Ferrari 365 GT 2+2 and a Mercedes 280 convertible. We were staying in Nice and driving back I saw a DB-7 and a F355 spider driving by us. I will never forget the sound of the Ferrari as it pasted us. All the best to you, and never stop being that teenage boy nerding out over other peoples cars.

Doug is the type of guy who gets excited seeing a carrera gt even though he sees one everyday

More car spotting videos please!

I like how nobody in the comment just appreciate how far Doug have come to get to where he is. Doug deserved everything he got to this point.

Doug, I almost never comment on videos, but I must say that I totally get it. You personify what it means to be an enthusiast. I am so happy for you, that your life has followed the trajectory that teenage car nuts dream of. I get it. The excitement at seeing something rare and beautiful that was designed to be driven but certainly almost is. I was on the Garden State Parkway one summer night when I saw unfamiliar headlights rapidly approaching from behind me. I pulled to the right to let it pass, and lo and behold it was a Bugatti Chiron. I was speechless. I could think of nothing else for days. I told everyone I could about it. Received eye rolls and polite smiles. They didn't get it. YOU would understand. Too see something so iconic, and unexpected; to bear witness to mobile artwork is truly something I will hopefully never forget. In the early days of the internet, a famous painter, who was very elderly, was shown his paintings posted online. He became upset. 'It cheapens the experience' he said. It is a privilege and a 'moment' to see the work of a great artist. I understand his point of view. But the truth is, we can see 1,000 pictures and videos, but to see the real thing right in front of you, outside of a garage of museum, is still such a thrill. I watched this video and your storytelling makes it clear that the enthusiasm is alive and well. The fact that you make that annual phone call to your friend is special and shows how ingrained your passion really is. Keep it real and keep rolling.

Doug is the kind of guy who can go car spotting in his own garage !

Can confirm. I was a high school student in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. I knew all the Bugatti statistics.

I loved this video. This is real excitement right here. Thanks Doug

That #1 is sooo surreal! No one would believe any of it if Doug didn't have pictures! 🤯🤣🤣

Truly the most passionate story from Doug.... unsure how anything could top this from him.... the passion is there, the stories match it, the way he tells it - as if you and him are there swapping stories.... amazing

I’m not a car spotter, but several years ago, I did valet work. A couple of the best cars I got to drive (or be near) were these: a BRAND NEW Rolls Royce drop top (the top cover looked like a yacht, and the new car tags were still on it! I think the dude bought it that day.), a brand new Ferrari (either a 458 or 488), a Noble M600, an Aston Martin Rapide, and a BMW Z8 (which I was allowed to park several times.

The truth is I really just love Doug. For all your content and videos, hearing you tell stories about your life is always the best for me.

EDIT: what I wrote isn't actually accurate, see the comment from @ThirteenMatt in response to mine for more precise information. Fun tidbit of info about the no.4, the Ferrari, the license plate is actually one of the older French license plates, before 1993 (white on black with two numbers at the end, the numbers correspond to the location ("département" in French) where the car is registered. 83 is the département of "Var" so that's the French riviera, where you have Saint-Tropez. So the driver might actually be the original owner! In any case, at the time the picture was taken the car had not been sold since 1992 (that license plate would have been changed if sold after 1992), so very cool!

Man, I love carspotting! It helps me during rough times, believe it or not, and I absolutely love it. Just like you did, I always bring my camera with me and photograph every car I like. Then I post them on Autogespot. Such a lovely hobby, it has some risks but I just can’t stop. Plus, I’m not the kind of guy that runs after every car, I’m more of a classic-style spotter

In 1985 I was living in Geneva Switzerland, and every year you had to get your car inspected at the official government inspection station. You would drive there and get on live to wait your turn. In 1985 I pulled up for inspection in my Ford Fiesta, and the car before me on the line was a 288 GTO

Best spot I ever had was in Manhattan in 2005. My wife and I were walking from the theater to a restaurant and we passed a very small parking lot were they backed in about 10 cars. And right smack dab in the middle of those was a McLaren F1. I still have a picture of it someplace.

Was smiling/giggling watching this.. you could see Doug still geeking about each moment even if he owns rare cars himself.

This is so cathartic. I'm a touch older than Doug so I definitely did not have social media and I have been mocked many a time for car spotting in my youth. But I did love car spotting (and still do) - my dad and I still compare notes when we see each other. One infamous story that I was never able to live down: It was in the mid 90s and I told a friend and his parents that I saw a Ferrari. That was the beginning and end to my story - the alpha and the omega if you will. To me, it was enthralling - gripping even. To them, I was off my rocker. They waited expecting some sort of finale. But much like this post, none was to come.

Love the thumbnail, that alone has me laughing. Doug is such a goober 😊

Man yall need to put some acoustic dampers in the building

Over the years, I don’t know how many hundred of your videos I’ve watched. Yet I think this one is my favorite. Especially the yellow Carrera GT story.

So Doug got to meet Ralph Lauren while wearing a Polo shirt. These days he must really be wanting to meet Mr. T.

In 2001 I pulled up next to Ralph Lauren at a stoplight in his silver McLaren F1. This was in a small Colorado town not too far from his Ranch. I’d say that was a good spot!

Doug is the type of guy whose birthday gift is car spotting (He's turning 36 in 10 days, on 22 May)

Car Spotting is such a special thing 🥰 To this day I take photos of every cool car I see on the street (Although, now I tend to focus on my favorite models) You know how I got into cars? I saw a Toyota GT 86 parked on the street in about 2014, it was the first Sports Car I had ever seen, it was so low, so stylish, so wonderful, I just loved it SO MUCH that as soon as I got home I researched everything about it, EVERYONE loved it. And that's how I got into cars and to this day the GR 86 is my favorite car ever. ❤️ It's just so much fun 😂

Mate, I was obsessed with the Veyron too, a little tale about my spotting: - I was based in the Czech Republic for work and had just gotten a company Passat CC. I took 3 friends and we drove to Germany to test the car in the autobahn. I was doing 220 km/h when something on my mirror gave me a light flash, I opened up, and this thing when past me so far that even at 220km/h we couldn’t identify the car. We drove approx 60km in hopes to catch up with it. That’s when some road work piled up the traffic and we finally saw a brand new Bugatti Veyron, driven by Czech Republic’s best ice hockey player at the time. A memory I’ll cherish forever.

seeing RL driving a Veyron is probably rarer than seeing a leprechaun riding a unicorn. AND the fact that DM was wearing a polo shirt...it's a trifecta of sugary goodness. what a great story!

Someone crashed a F40 recently in the small south-western German town I work in. I don't usually read any local news, but my colleagues at the office talked about someone totaling some million Euro car near to our office and when I checked, it was a real F40.

Doug, That was your best video ever. Thank you.

People who talk crap about Doug being a sellout and say “he’s changed” need to watch this video. The reason I still watch Doug is because he’s so *passionate* about cars. And he’s such a good story teller.

Every time I hear Doug tell his career life story starting with the spotting of the carrera gt it gives me chills. It’s such a sweet simple and heartwarming story

Vacation with his girlfriend in college in Telluride... that's another world. I had trouble even paying for enough calories to stay alive in college. My best sighting was John Carmack's turbo Testarossa near Mesquite, TX in 1995 with a couple of friends.

Who will replace Jay Leno after he's gone? Doug DeMuro perhaps. The passion, The energy, The enthusiasm.❤

Love this video and I'm so glad you've branched out into videos like this. Keep pushing the limits. This is a great story for car enthusiasts and its appreciated and noticed.

Loved this video! I used to carspot religiously back in 2006-2012. I have a similar story of being in Greenwich CT and knowing that Tommy Hilfiger lived nearby and had an Enzo, my favorite car. The day I visited I ended up seeing him drive his Enzo to the CVS at the top of the hill to run a mundane errand. The highlight of my carspotting career!

Who else agrees that Doug should make another “car spotting” video with Hoovie?

That Bugatti owner was the definition of “cool”

This is such an enderaring side of doug, even with his own exotic car collection he still freaks out over seeing rare cars on the road. Car guy 10/10

I’ve seen that Veyron picture a million times and I never knew it was Doug who took it!

Doug is the type of guy to stalk a guy with a Veyron.

9:08 clean integra

I really enjoyed learning about car spotting and how it influenced your life. Of all people, it seems so fitting that the obsessed car spotter kid has now become a respected and well-known automobile expert. And it seems especially deserving that you and your friends now get to own and experience some of the special cars yall used to look out for. What an inspiring story!! So, thanks for sharing it here. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.

Great video.. love the passion

Yeah, the Veyron was peak Top Gear. I remember the excitement myself when I heard they got one. That Ralph Lauren story was so sweet - he sounds so gracious. 👍

I spotted an Enzo on the highway in Honolulu. Blew my mind. Either 2003 or 2004. I was in my C4 Corvette and I followed for a few miles.

A few weeks back I saw a Carrera GT driving around in the Harz region here in Germany (known for many twisty roads) and it entered a tunnel - there was only one thing to do: Windows down, listen and enjoy.

This is such a great episode. You can see the passion and I love the stories.

Doug the kind of guy who pulls his shorts down to his socks when using a urinal.

Doug's the type of guy to spot the Sasquatch and make a quirks and features video

Thank you for sharing your stories. Very intriguing!

Loved this vid Doug!

Doug, the kind of guy to go Carrera GT spotting in his Carrera GT

Doug is the chosen one, the messiah of car journalism, you don't just have an experience like that with ralph and the Veyron without you being like an anime protagonist

Doug, I think you're such a happy guy, just living your dream, and I'm so happy for you, and you're such an inspiration in a world where we're always told to "grow up" "get serious" "be a real man", etc.

Seeing how far you’ve come makes me genuinely happy. I remember watching your first videos and it’s great to see you’re still at it and doing well 🙂

Carspotting has been a thing for atleast a 100 years

*Hallelujah!!!! The daily jesus devotional has been a huge part of my transformation, God is good 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻was owning a loan of $47,000 to the bank for my son's brain surgery (David), Now I'm no longer in debt after I invested $12,000 and got my payout of m $270,500 every months,God bless Christy Fiore🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸..*

Glad Doug made a video on this topic. Would love more content on this!

That were great choices Doug, thank you for taking us to your emotional roller coaster, I knew the Carrera GT story already but the Ralph Lauren not yet which was awesome. Thank you for sharing!

In 2006, I was taking a shuttle to school in Fort Lauderdale. It was raining hard... very hard. I looked to my right and saw a red Ferrari F50 with no roof. Inside, it was filled with water-so much water that the driver's and passenger's shoes were submerged. The lady passenger was upset, but the driver seemed not to care. It was crazy to me.

I haven't heard audio reverb like this since new wave music was a thing in the 80's.

About 15 years ago i saw a Vector W12 on I-95 near Palm Beach, Florida. It was the rarest car I've seen in person on the road. It looked like a spaceship. I'm pretty sure i was the only person who knew what they were looking at.

Doug i think this is such a heartwarming video. You have come so far you can now call these absolute dreamcars your own. All this time being a hardcore car nerd finally lead to your jobs, channel and cars and bids. It is absolutely crazy and feels like it is out of a movie. I am happy to see you still enjoy these absurd toys like a kid playing with hotwheels or driving in need for speed on a playstation.

This is the type of content More Doug DeMuro was made for. RIP

I bet there is an MC12 included in this vid. Edit: 7:52 I knew it...

I love Doug's enthusiasm for this stuff. He's a genuine car guy.

I really appreciate that despite the years you have never lost your essence or your humility, and thanks to that people who do not have the resources or are not in the right place can enjoy cars as special as you do... I truly wish you the best!

In 2005, I saw Carroll Shelby driving a Shelby Series I down Sunset Blvd towards PCH. I pulled along side and followed for awhile, just to verify what I was seeing. He was alone and seemed to be enjoying a nice drive on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Not my favorite car, but by far my greatest car spotting moment

I had a photo album on my MySpace called "Supercars In the Wild" that I made in 2005 that featured pics of all the cars I had seen. Proooobably should have pursued that.

Really enjoyed this video. Great stories!

I live in Cape Town, South Africa🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦. My Top5 favorite car spots of all time: 1) McLaren F1 driving in Franschoek, Cape Winelands 2) Ferrari F40 driving in Stellenbosch, Cape Pinelands 3) Bugatti Chiron driving in Sea Point 4) LaFerrari (Aperta) driving in Camps Bay 5) Pagani Imola driving in Stellenbosch.

1. Ferrari Enzo driven by Michael Schuhmacher 2. Vancer Sarthe in Dubai 3. Wiesmann GT Roadster 4. Aston Martin Rapide (when it was brand new) 5. BMW Z1

Doug's the type of guy who would do a Doug's top-5 "Doug's the type of guy" comments video.

Minus the exact date and time to the second that Doug first saw his dream cars for the first time in person, I can always remember the storyline, images, and specific details when I "carspotted" my dream rides or rarities running around in the wild on the road. Doug is definitely an interesting character. I can feel his same sense of passion and excitement when he tells his stories. This was a great video you put out Doug! Thanks for filming this for all of us.

What awesome stories! You are a passionate dude ! Look where it got you! Congrats Doug!

2:00 My picture of the Utopia is there.

Doug is the best car KZfaqr ever.

Doug is just incredible at story telling

great stories! loved it!

I wonder if the Doug in that photo had any idea he’d be where he is today? I truly think life boils down to pure luck regarding whether you become successful or not. Our hero’s may tell us they worked 100 hour weeks and were homeless but we all know historically the “winners” get to tell the story whether truthfully or not…

Doug the type of guy to see a mc12

Loved the stories of these sightings 😊

This story was one of the best and most aspiring stories I have ever heard and witnessed. Doug you are really legit, you are the definition of a car guy in the best possible way. Keep those stories coming, I really enjoy them. Thanks!

Great video, Doug... & a great story!

Doug! I had the same experience with the MC12 except my uncle asked the owner if he’d take me for a ride and he did! I rode in one in 2007. It was Preston Henn’s, you may know who that is, he sued Ferrari for NOT selling him a LaFerrari Aperta before he passed a few years back.

I saw 4 Porsche 959s at Holberts outside Philly..in 89..amazing…

One of the best video Doug. Great story!