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Donut turns its HiLow S15 finale into drift HORSE

Nolan Sykes and Jimmy Hilton bring the budget and expensive builds to Orange Show Speedway for a live-audience test.

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$32,000 vs $100,000 Nissan S15 Build | HiLow Finale!

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1:28The teams arrive at Orange Show Speedway for a live-audience game of drift HORSE.
5:21The Donut-in-a-Box challenge tests whether either driver can enter the marked space cleanly.
9:55Proximity runs bring barrel contact and a cracked fiberglass bumper for Low Team.
13:52The final three-barrel challenge begins, with the result arriving at 18:09.
18:42Back in the garage, the hosts discuss whether the expensive build justified its extra cost.

A hundred-thousand-dollar car is a nerve-racking way to play HORSE. Jimmy Hilton admits as much before Donut's two Nissan Silvia S15 builds face a course of boxed donuts, proximity runs and barrel challenges in the HiLow season finale.

Nolan Sykes drives for Low Team, with Tristan Kim joining him, while Jimmy and Justin Freeman handle the expensive build. Drift instructor Adam Knapik judges proceedings at Orange Show Speedway. The episode is sponsored by Allstate and includes a comedy ad break, but the central question belongs to the whole series: how much does spending more actually buy you?

The paintwork soon has something less gentle than sanding to contend with. Tristan clips a barrel and cracks the budget car's fiberglass bumper; Jimmy offers the reassuring detail that their paint job has a warranty. With nearly 600,000 views, the finale is both the week's most watched new upload and Donut's busiest video right now.

Viewers have a testing-method question of their own. Several want the same experienced drift driver to try both cars, separating the builds' capabilities from their drivers' learning curves. Others are discussing the budget car's paint, while one suggests that a channel called Donut could have found a more fitting name for its game than HORSE.

Donut posted three times, adding "Send It!!" and "Junkyard Beetle vs Mexico," whose description notes the absence of a windshield. Across the channel, subscribers were unchanged over seven days, and today's viewing pace is well below usual. Nearby in motoring, Top Gear is running slightly above its normal daily pace, while ChrisFix is close to its usual level.

The previous HiLow installment, "Cheap vs Expensive Paint Jobs! | HiLow," also remains among Donut's busiest uploads. Those freshly finished panels have now had their first very public encounter with the barrels.

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What viewers say

Can’t believe you guys didn’t call it a game of DRIFT instead of HORSE.

Or even DONUT
@jbkeebsSee it on YouTube
low car is absolutely beautiful, the paint is insane
@MrWestTCGSee it on YouTube
Don’t have the money for either build but I’m finna watch and enjoy and dream😭
@dihr..1303See it on YouTube

6 more comments

I'd like to see both cars put through the challenges again with an experienced drift driver, just to see how the cars themselves stack up. Love the series, yall did great. I gotta give this season to low car.
@jg8263See it on YouTube
I think Adam gotta drive both and decide which is better.
@yosefmiller6403See it on YouTube
Would love to see Adam takes these out for a rip!
@brianm3908See it on YouTube
First season on Hi Low where I want the low car more than the hi car.
@666skyshadowSee it on YouTube
I would like to see a stig review at the very beginning and very end. This would provide a more independent/objective review of the results.
@ghettotoyotaSee it on YouTube
19:19 the Japanese romance filter leading to Justin telling them to kiss😂😂😂😂
@mirzadotdngSee it on YouTube

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The videos drawing views on Donut right now

Send It!!22,408 views · 2026-10-27

Junkyard Beetle vs Mexico16,434 views · 2026-10-29

Cheap vs Expensive Paint Jobs! | HiLow881,626 views

The facts

Channel: Donut
Subscribers: 9,360,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 2,883,249
Videos published this week: 3
Video published: October 27, 2026
Video views so far: 597,464
Views on its first day: 437,703

The numbers

Here is how Donut's uploads and audience moved over the past week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

25,021,632

7,400,805

7,262,885

5,871,406

4,007,578

3,300,963

2,883,249

2,584,384

588,553

subscribers

9,360,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,108,331,708

views per day

187,153

typical day: 485,986

first-day views of each video posted this week

$32,000 vs $100,000 Nissan S15 Build | …

437,703

Send It!!

17,486

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

11,300,000

11,200,000

10,800,000

9,560,000

9,360,000

7,880,000

7,000,000

6,660,000

6,020,000

As of October 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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