More muscle, bigger appetite
I’m not talking about beefed-up wrestlers, unless Monster Trucks counts as a wrestling match.
Found this on Wired News (be sure to read the comments!). A truck that gets 7-8 miles per gallon in the city, and fills up at US $100. Yikes! Say hello to the 2007 Dodge Ram SRT10.
The NYTimes car reviewer says it best about the 2007 Dodge Ram SRT10: “This truck could be more politically incorrect only if it ran on whale oil and panda tears.”
Truly one of the great sentences in the history of auto journalism, by Ezra Dyer, in describing a 510 horsepower pickup that got between 7-8 miles per gallon during his test drive. Not at typo.
(Note the ironic typo there, and subsequent typos… oh well, spellchecking has yet to be sophisticated enough to get rid of some of mine, too!)
Read the full article here, extremely entertaining even for a girl who is completely disinterested in trucks. It’s just so well-written and witty!
Someone commented on the Wired post:
“I still cannot figure out how buying suv makes the price of gas go up. It seems that gas was cheap though the 70’s and car makers were building cars that got 7-8 mpg, not trucks mind you, cars… and it was most of them. I would imagine, if I had to guess that gas prices are increasing due to short supply, greedy oil companies, instability in the middle east, and the US’s refusal to build any new refineries. ”
Short supply thanks to gas-guzzling vehicles since the 70s, maybe? Hopefully not anymore, thanks to the Governator! Way to go, Arnold! Now, Mr. Bush, Mr. Harper, and Mr. Gordon Campbell…
