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Autocar engagement report

@autocar - 274K followers on X

Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.038%
of 274K followers
Per impression
1.16%
9.0K views on a typical post
Reach
3.30%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
104
interactions (median)
Saved
0.083%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.67/day
active 83% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 104 interactions against 274K followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 9.0K times each, and 1.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.0K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rangerover, #throwback.

Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #rangerover, #throwback.

Compared with accounts its own size

Autocar's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 49% 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 0.038%, Autocar sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,839 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.

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p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,839 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,058 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 08:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video99% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link96% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 99% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 96% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 162 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

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  • Sep 4, 202615x their median

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    1.2K17610693213K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 202613x their median

    "The world needs Dacia more than ever, and it's more difficult than ever to be Dacia."Β  Dacia CEO Katrin Adt has called on European law makers to relax regulation on small cars to reduce prices – and return the region's industry to growth https://t.co/vW9cphM2U2 https://t.co/6nDpGK6Aex

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  • Sep 10, 202612x their median

    Mercedes-AMG has transplanted its new V8 into the CLE to create the 646 Spezialanfertigung – one of its wildest cars yet πŸ’ͺ https://t.co/KAUdzs1Zq5 https://t.co/muHtBKpAIo

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  • Sep 22, 202611x their median

    McLaren has a new logo – here's everything you need to know πŸ‘€ https://t.co/z2sHuxO4RN https://t.co/lQBct8Xuv3

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  • Sep 14, 202611x their median

    The Volkswagen XL1 is back - only now it's an EV that manages nine miles per kWh πŸ”₯ https://t.co/wIhp7j8yJP https://t.co/5kj9nV1QRp

    1.0K64342762K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20269.2x their median

    The legendary Jensen Interceptor is back - but it's nothing like you remember it... 🀯 πŸ”₯ https://t.co/pIQ5Tof0DT https://t.co/2Od1FbWC7h

    82488202444K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20268.6x their median

    Is this *finally* confirmation of a Volvo wagon comeback? The firm is planning a 13-model blitz by 2030, including "new low- and high-body types"... 😍 https://t.co/mHfKO2FAQO https://t.co/fQNwKwVjUq

    78855341436K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20267.6x their median

    McLaren is making a huge Β£500m investment into its UK business, which will bring: - A second factory 🏭 - A new range of completely bespoke engines βš™οΈ - 4000 new jobs... πŸ‘·β€β™‚οΈ - ... and *finally* an SUV 🚘 https://t.co/rSigBRnvdl https://t.co/h0GQU6BwD8

    67056372949K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20265.7x their median

    New Audi A2 revealed as ultra-efficient EV with 400-mile range! 🀩 https://t.co/bfUdKgXyhb https://t.co/OrZReCcWre

    48935333944K viewsView on X

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.

Recurring topics

#rangerover#throwback

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 104 interactions against 274K followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 9.0K times each, and 1.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.0K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rangerover, #throwback.

What is Autocar's engagement rate on X?
Autocar (@autocar) has an engagement rate of 0.038%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 273,834 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.038%, Autocar sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,839 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 @autocar have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @autocar post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.

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