Wheelie Yellow built a dream truck, then worried about scratches

The Japanese Kei truck build shares a four-upload week with a first-drive Short approaching four million views.

Channel: Wheelie Yellow Story of November 13, 2026Trari Newsroom

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.

I built my own Japanese Kei truck

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Making the dream is one thing; risking its paintwork is another. In "I built my own Japanese Kei truck", Wheelie Yellow admits that the time spent building the miniature vehicle has made enjoying it unexpectedly daunting.

The video connects a trip to Japan with the new build, then moves from the reveal to driving and slow-motion jumps. Its chapter headings eventually arrive at the real predicament: being afraid to enjoy the dream, followed by scratching the paintwork. For a channel built around homemade miniature van adventures, that is a particularly recognisable maker's dilemma.

The week's biggest new audience went to the supposedly gentle first-drive Short, now approaching four million views. Roadside shots give way to a tiny cab with yellow-gloved figures, animated steering hands and digital dashboard displays. Outside, the vehicle takes a sharp turn around a tree and tips onto two wheels. Inside, the instrumentation gives this small-scale outing an elaborate driver's-eye view.

That dashboard is a recurring subject in the comments: viewers single out its monitors, the interior camera angle and the attitude indicator. Others join in with the joke about giving the machine a gentle breaking-in period.

Across four uploads, the channel also returned to the question of reapplying clear coat. That Short remains a substantial draw, while October's slower-driving clip continues to gather views among the older uploads.

Wheelie Yellow added around 7,000 subscribers over the week, and daily views are running at nearly three times the usual pace. Nearby motoring channels Cars & Money and RoadandTrack are also enjoying elevated daily viewing. Here, though, the week's distinctive pleasure is much smaller: a painstakingly built dashboard doing its best to keep up with a very ungentle drive.

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More from Wheelie YellowVideo taking off 8.9x its usual first dayWheelie Yellow's "gentle" first drive tips onto two wheelsThe new miniature build gets a spirited road test, complete with yellow-gloved steering and a dashboard attracting its own admirers.Channel: Wheelie Yellow · Story of November 11, 2026 Also in Cars and motoringVideo taking off 5.7x its usual first dayCarExpert asks whether your next ute should be a truckPaul Maric loads an Isuzu light truck and a Ranger Super Duty with concrete, then finds different reasons to choose each.Channel: CarExpert · Story of November 13, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo taking off 23x its usual first dayJimmy Kimmel sets Trump's Triumphal Arch against veterans' budget cutsWith veterans in the audience, his Veterans Day monologue also revisits the Arlington guard's rebuke and closes on a parody doll commercial.Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live · Story of November 13, 2026

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The videos drawing views on Wheelie Yellow right now

Starting out gently for the first drive #rccar #rccars #vanlifediarie…3,973,882 views · 2026-11-10 Anyone got any tips on reapplying clear coat? #rccar #rccars #vanlife…1,118,178 views · 2026-11-06 I’ve built something new again (again) #rccar #rccars #vanlifediaries…25,361 views · 2026-11-09 Taking it a bit slower today 🐌 #rccar #rccars #vanlifediaries #missi…3,114,479 views

The numbers

Here is how Wheelie Yellow's new-build week shaped up.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Wheelie Yellow

5,155,282

RoadandTrack

1,167,031

The Hooptie Lot!

494,035

Cars & Money

465,382

Fixbook

118,926

richpin06a

36,413

Nthefastlane

29,229

Maximus Ironthumper

10,976

DoctaM3

5,971

subscribers

129,000

▲ 7,000 in the last 7 days

total views

29,363,460

views per day

1,420,944

typical day: 489,363

first-day views of each video posted this week

Starting out gently for the first drive…

324,073

Anyone got any tips on reapplying clear…

306,308

I built my own Japanese Kei truck

65,989

I’ve built something new again (again) …

10,531

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

DoctaM3

136,000

Fixbook

135,000

richpin06a

134,000

Maximus Ironthumper

132,000

Cars & Money

130,000

Wheelie Yellow

129,000

The Hooptie Lot!

125,000

Nthefastlane

121,000

RoadandTrack

121,000

As of November 13, 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.