Tied with Santa Cruz-He is a tough grader from this showing
He certainly did not score or grade on the generous side....
Interesting. I'm ordering an FX4 but I'd love to see what the 0-60 looks like under Sport vs Normal.
Agreed - I think he does a good job and is a straight shooter on his reviews. He also doesn't pull the pandering catchy title BS that seem to be so prevalent on Youtube - that in and of itself is refreshing to me.
His scoring either doesn't make sense at all, or he has his own set of very specific rules/checks that each receive a value. To be so hyper-specific with low scoring (and with so many vehicles regularly receiving such low 'scores') I have to think that he is using his own check list and assigning value based on the results. He is quirky after all right? Otherwise it is just pointless!
Yeah he is definitely popular regardless of how some seem to feel about his videos. I believe his initial Maverick review video had the most views of any out there. The new video is just shy of 300k views in under 24 hours...his channel is popular to say the least.
I think he would be better served with a 1-5 star rating system (even if he gives half stars...) - but if everything is going to end up between 2-3 starts (40-60 points in his grading), he either needs to adjust his grading by shifting it up, or acknowledge that his scoring system is inherently overly critical. I feel like most reviews take a vehicle and remove points for cons, where as his scale almost seems to start from zero and add points only for pros...neither is necessarily the right way to score something, but starting from zero appears overly critical.
His scores are an actual range and not inflated like you'll see from a lot of reviewers (who over-use the top end of the range). A 5 in one of the categories on a DougScore is actually a good rating.
Yeah, seems like you can almost consider a 5 to be a solid all-around score in any category - anything above that is a stand-out. What I don't like is that his scoring is against everything he has reviewed - basically making the entire score system subjective. So while it is more realistic than other reviews (like I said earlier, most reviewers start from perfect and subtract for cons), attempting to start at the bottom and work up ends up skewing the results differently.
