How to get visitors for a community site

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I am in the process of creating a small community for car owners. I am still in the development process, but was wondering how to get users to visit the site when it is done.

My main focus is the forum, and you probably all know that, nobody wants to visit a dead forum.

I was thinking of two options on how to start the community:

Advertising on the internet.
Creating fake posts by myself

The problem is to get the first few people using the forum, and I want to know if any of you guys have some experience doing it?

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