How many of those are real instead of fake? Any hacker can probably game the counter to read a few million subs. Chrysler just hands over the key and lets them drive?
'23 Dodge Hornet test of A.W.D. goes haywire
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Do you really have no idea how automotive press works?????? Yes, that's literally how it works, and they do it with much smaller channels than TFL as well. And no, you can't just "hack the counter". That's not how technology works. At all. This is about the silliest comment I've seen recently.
Edit: Most of what people like you would call ""hackers"" these days are social engineering attacks to get people to click bad links in their email or give up their password/information over the phone.
Here you go.
How Do Automotive Journalists Get Press Cars?
As an automotive journalist, I get to drive and review new press cars every week. Here is how I, as well as other journalists, are able to get them.
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Not quite, try again. Stellantis NV is actually headquartered in the Netherlands, so if anything you'd call them Dutch. And they still have leadership from both PSA and FCA including engineering teams. And they didn't replace all the Italian workers in the Naples plant with French workers.
And French cars are known in Europe to be somewhat more reliable than their Italian counterparts anyway.
Edit: And if you want to get really pedantic, the CEO is Portuguese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Tavares
Sergio Marchionne, a man who tried to bring life to that organization, must be turning in his grave……
Then why do I keep reading about hackers shuting down a company for days like the pipeline hack a few years ago, or ransomeware take down of a hospital? Or when they can plant a bug in your computer and watch everything you do? Not to mention all the fake reviews on Google or Yelp. I would think a good hacker could write a program to simulate views, likes and subs on Youtube as well.
Maybe your definition of an automotive journalist is different from mine. I'm not sure if someone making and showing videos on youtube or tic tok is in the same class as someone writing articles in Car & Driver or Motor Trend. 30 some years ago I wrote stuff for Old Cars Weekly and got a few bucks for each article. I did it more for fun than fame. You think they would send me the latest Corvette to review? I still have a PRESS card somewhere.Here you go.
How Do Automotive Journalists Get Press Cars?
As an automotive journalist, I get to drive and review new press cars every week. Here is how I, as well as other journalists, are able to get them.
YouTube stops counting views as “views” after 4-5 times in a 24 hour period, and you have to watch at least 30 seconds of a video for it to count as a view. Video watch bots also don’t work as any account that gets caught leaving spam or randomly hopping from video to video won’t have its view or like counted. You’d need hundreds of thousands of accounts to make a dent in anything.
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I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for these wheel mines 
The company called Chrysler is long dead..Its just a name now....
TfL car and tfl truck do alot of testing. They did a great segment on various off roading vehicles. True they should have waited for a definite production version, but magazines online companies sometimes get what they can. Not all publications have a huge backing company that can get them long-term press fleets etc. TFL's office is in Gunbarrel Colorado in a small industrial park.
I missed this years Denver auto show unfortunately but in 2017 I called the company hosting it. I asked if I could have press passes. They said no problem.
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It's not the test that ridiculous, it's the fact they were told there was a known issue in the test mule and act like teens whose old mans' car just broke down...
Reading comprehension, it's important....
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