Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this an ad put out by GMC?? Such a hideous car (yuk!!), and like the other posters pointed out, in such poor taste to include views of the environment in the background, images of floods or forest fires would be more fitting for that gas guzzler.

if there was an Audi/BMW badge on the hood you'd worship it

This. 100%, all day long.

Anonymous wrote:Is this an ad put out by GMC?? Such a hideous car (yuk!!), and like the other posters pointed out, in such poor taste to include views of the environment in the background, images of floods or forest fires would be more fitting for that gas guzzler.

if there was an Audi/BMW badge on the hood you'd worship it

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Airplane math from wsj:

“The sweet spot for fuel economy is often the basic single-aisle jet, often producing mpg better than bigger planes and superior to smaller regional jets as well. Boeing says the champ in its current line-up is the 737-900 with 180 passengers flying 1,000 miles. It gets nearly 99 mpg. The plane with the best average mpg in Airbus's current line-up is the A320 family.“

Yeah you call tell that article was written by someone who has exactly zero understanding of aircraft fuel consumption. MPG? Miles per gallon? Not even a standard of measure in the world of aircraft. Planes don't burn "gallons". Planes burn "pounds". Pounds per hour.

When you get the most basic, fundamental things like that wrong, there's no point in even reading it.

The Department of Transportation Statistics publishes data on seat miles per gallon: https://www.bts.dot.gov/archive/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/special_report/2012_03_33/table_06

And the Energy Department publishes comparison charts based on passenger-miles per gallon: https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10311

Maybe they don't know what they're talking about either.

(Note that, according to the comparison chart, airlines get much higher passenger-miles per gallon than light trucks.)

Anonymous wrote:Airplane math from wsj:

“The sweet spot for fuel economy is often the basic single-aisle jet, often producing mpg better than bigger planes and superior to smaller regional jets as well. Boeing says the champ in its current line-up is the 737-900 with 180 passengers flying 1,000 miles. It gets nearly 99 mpg. The plane with the best average mpg in Airbus's current line-up is the A320 family.“

Yeah you call tell that article was written by someone who has exactly zero understanding of aircraft fuel consumption. MPG? Miles per gallon? Not even a standard of measure in the world of aircraft. Planes don't burn "gallons". Planes burn "pounds". Pounds per hour.


When you get the most basic, fundamental things like that wrong, there's no point in even reading it.

Is this an ad put out by GMC?? Such a hideous car (yuk!!), and like the other posters pointed out, in such poor taste to include views of the environment in the background, images of floods or forest fires would be more fitting for that gas guzzler.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be embarrassed to drive that around. It’s
like wearing a sign in public saying “I don’t care about my kids future, the planet, your safety, or anything else but my ego.” Just cringe.

I don't own one and wouldn't simply because they are too big and get terrible gas mileage. But I wouldn't fault someone for buying a car that makes THEM safer in a crash vs. the other vehicle.

Well you can fault them (and you) for being wrong about SUV's being safer because they are not - the significantly higher rollover rates of SUV's negate any weight advantage of driving one as does the fact that there are so many SUV's on the road now that in many cases you are just putting yourself on a level playing field with everyone else.

And SUV ads by are large don't even claim to be safer anymore than cars though they do imply it.

The posted cars get 27 mpg?

Airplane math from wsj:

“The sweet spot for fuel economy is often the basic single-aisle jet, often producing mpg better than bigger planes and superior to smaller regional jets as well. Boeing says the champ in its current line-up is the 737-900 with 180 passengers flying 1,000 miles. It gets nearly 99 mpg. The plane with the best average mpg in Airbus's current line-up is the A320 family.“