Car and Driver engagement report
@CARandDRIVER - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 189 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 31 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 189 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 9.3K times each, and 0.334% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.712% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 189 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 731 interactions, about 24x its own typical post.
Measured over 189 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Car and Driver's engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 25% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.002%, Car and Driver sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 202624x their median
The Lucid Air Sapphire went from 0 to 200 to 0 mph in 25.7 seconds, outperforming the Chevy Corvette ZR1X by 6.1 seconds. https://t.co/rJTRyD3k3d
- Aug 20, 202614x their median
The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X went 0 to 150 to 0 mph in 14.0 seconds. For some perspective on this overall time: The sharp-edged ZR1X demolished its entire run 0.2 second longer than it took the Hyundai Elantra N to hit a quarter-mile. The Corvette did it in barely more than a quarter-mile, too, with a total of 1729 feet.
- Aug 20, 202613x their median
The 2027 GV90 is the newest Genesis SUV, and it’s an electric model that serves as the luxury automaker’s flagship. The GV90 Neolun comes with massive 24-inch wheels and coach doors, which slide back before opening out. Genesis also eliminated the B-pillar, making for a wide door opening.
- Aug 25, 202612x their median
The Audi Nuvolari checks in with an estimated 987 horsepower, a top speed beyond 217 mph, and pricing in the upper $600,000s. Only 499 cars will be built. Not only is the Nuvolari big-upping its Lamborghini relative, the Temerario, it's also more exotic than anything from Porsche since the 918 Spyder.
- Aug 20, 20266.6x their median
During our 0-150-0 speed test, we brought together the two loudest cars of the pack to determine which takes the title for best exhaust sound. Let us know your pick in the comments! https://t.co/jHtgMlgdLI
- Aug 20, 20265.7x their median
In 2023, a 911 Turbo S won. This year’s updated model is midpack, and that’s with a time that beat the ’23 version’s 19.3-second effort by almost two seconds. Let that sink in for a second, or 17.4. https://t.co/eyjRgxKK7v
- Aug 26, 20265.5x their median
2028 Dodge GLH Is an Affordable Yet Muscular Hot Hatchback Worth Waiting For https://t.co/xZ56lmeE0b
- Aug 23, 20265.3x their median
On the opposite side of small and light, we have the BMW M5, which leapfrogs its little sibling through power and four-wheel traction. With 717 horses from a 577-hp twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 and a 194-hp electric motor, the M5 may change your expectations of a plug-in hybrid. https://t.co/QsqEOJSYb8
- Aug 20, 20265.2x their median
Lucid Air Sapphire at the 0–150–0-MPH Speed Test 2026 https://t.co/daLnoGzVzO
- Aug 24, 20264.5x their median
BMW Says Young People Are the Reason It Abandoned Buttons in Its Cars https://t.co/lGn8dbR0VG
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 31 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 189 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 9.3K times each, and 0.334% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.712% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 189 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 731 interactions, about 24x its own typical post.
- What is Car and Driver's engagement rate on X?
- Car and Driver (@CARandDRIVER) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 189 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,305,140 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Car and Driver sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @CARandDRIVER have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @CARandDRIVER post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.3 posts per day across the measured window.