Haggard Garage revisits the E36 that barely made one event
Orion Dajnowicz's project-car retrospective joins printing experiments and track-day Shorts in a 15-upload week.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
The WORST Haggard Garage car
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- 1:00The turbo Protege opens Orion's honorable mentions of troublesome Haggard Garage cars.
- 1:43He recalls a Lexus ES300 whose transmission failed after three days.
- 5:39Orion names the "Happy Medium" BMW E36 sedan as his worst personal car.
- 6:45The rotten E36 received a welded differential and custom angle-kit lower control arms fabricated with a chop saw.
- 7:42He explains that the E36 ran at one event before being scrapped.
The name was "Happy Medium," but Orion Dajnowicz remembers very little compromise in how bad that BMW was. In "The WORST Haggard Garage car," he pulls up the old E36 build footage and revisits a sedan so rotten that its working life amounted to one event before it was scrapped.
He had traded a blown S14 for it, welded the differential and fabricated angle-kit lower control arms with a chop saw. The retrospective also makes room for other questionable acquisitions, including a Lexus ES300 whose transmission lasted just three days. But the E36 is his personal choice, revealed a little over halfway through the video.
That upload was the week's most-watched new arrival, reaching roughly 1,700 views within six hours. The comments offer a different kind of car history: viewers remember the turbo Protege and Mazda footage as their introduction to the channel, nominate the stance Focus for the dubious distinction, and give Cam's Durango an honorable mention on the good-car side.
Elsewhere, the week stretched from accidental printing prototypes to track outings and a team retreat. The prototype Short has the strongest current daily momentum among those uploads, followed by the race-day crowd clip and a visit to Strange Planet Printing.
Subscribers held steady, while the catalog collected roughly 234,000 views over the week. Daily viewing is a little below its usual pace. Among nearby motoring channels, ReDriven had a substantially larger viewing week, while Haggard Garage's weekly total was higher than Drift Games and ScannerDanner. Here, the most distinctive new conversation belongs to the old cars: the builds Orion regrets are also the ones some viewers remember arriving for.
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What viewers say
The boosted prodigy was literally what brought me to the channel for the first time
@boboinagoatSee it on YouTubeThis is the first video i ever watched from haggard all those years ago been watching everything since
@silverback1012See it on YouTubethe mazda was the reason why i subbed in the first place
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Honorable mention for good cars on the channel was Cams Durango. That thing was actually pretty clean
@sethchandler2539See it on YouTubeI thought the haggard stance focus would be top 1 worst 😂
@riskiestmass52See it on YouTubeForgot to mention the white focus
@RicerIntegraSee it on YouTubeDang I liked that one😂
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- Haggard Garage
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- 484,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 234,229
- Videos published this week
- 15
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- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,651
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Which car does Orion name as his worst from the Haggard Garage era?
Orion selects the "Happy Medium" E36 after revisiting several other troublesome cars.


