r/namethatcar

Name that car

Founded September 2013 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 21

Post an original picture of a car for others to guess what it is. We welcome any and all submissions, whether they're OC or just taken from a Wikipedia page.

Members

272,371

272K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

5.0

from the last 100 posts, spanning 19.8 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 21

sampled Oct 21

Distinct posters

88%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 14 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

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r/namethatcar — frequently asked

How many members does r/namethatcar have?

r/namethatcar has 272,371 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 21. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/namethatcar growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/namethatcar yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 14; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/namethatcar?

Around 5.0 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 19.8 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/namethatcar created?

r/namethatcar was founded in September 2013 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/namethatcar?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 88% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 21. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/namethatcar?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/namethatcar yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/namethatcar for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/namethatcar into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/namethatcar's stats?

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r/namethatcar Subreddit Stats — 272K members, 5.0 posts/day