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Twenty Best Cars and Trucks for Destroying the Earth

From Brian Sy, Featured Contributor
Posted on April 21, 2008

Filed under Humor, Top 10

The best cars and trucks for making your mark on the planet.

First, they wanted you to recycle. Then they said to stop heating your house. But now, those tofu-eating hippies insist that giving up plastic bags, walking 20 miles to work, and using exactly one sheet of toilet paper is the only way to avoid burning in hell. If you've had it with environmentalists imposing on your lifestyle, here are ten cars and trucks you can drive to tell them just how tired you are of hearing about the Toyota Prius.

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   We rounded up ten vehicles that reign supreme in wastefulness and pollution. Most of these outpork a Ford Explorer, and their engines are double or triple the size of those in normal cars. As a bonus, the leather covering their interiors costs a whole pasture's worth of cattle.

The vehicles are ranked in order of how skillfully they guzzle gas and by the yearly tonnage of carbon dioxide they spew into the atmosphere according to the EPA.

Rank	Car	MPG city	MPG highway	Tons of CO2 per year
1	Lamborghini Murcielago	8	13	18.3
2	Bugatti Veyron	8	14	18.3
3	Bentley Arnage RL	9	15	16.6
4	Ferrari 612 Scaglietti	9	16	16.6
5	Aston Martin DB9	10	16	15.2
6	Maybach 62	10	16	18.3
7	Bentley Continental	10	17	15.2
8	Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano	11	15	15.2
9	Mercedes SLR McLaren	12	16	14.1
10	Mercedes S65	11	17	14.1

Only two problems with the list. First, there are no domestics, even though destroying the Earth and waving the American flag go hand in hand. Also, some might take issue with the cheapest car in the bunch ringing the register up to $171,000.

We can solve both problems by shifting to the Ten Best Trucks. Here, nine come with a five-figure price and seven are native to the U.S. of A.

Rank	Car	MPG city	MPG highway	Tons of CO2 per year
1	Hummer H2	unknown	unknown	unknown
2	Mercedes G55	11	13	15.2
3	Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8	11	14	14.1
4	Porsche Cayenne GTS	11	17	14.1
5	Lincoln Mark LT	12	16	13.1
6	Infiniti QX56	12	17	13.1
7	Chevrolet Suburban	12	17	13.1
8	Chevrolet Avalanche	12	17	13.1
9	Toyota Sequoia	13	16	13.1
10	Hummer H3	13	16	13.1

For the record, the Hummer H2 was never tested by the EPA because its Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (weight + payload capacity) exceeds 8,500 pounds, exempting it from the scrutiny. But as the heaviest truck (6,600 pounds) carrying the biggest engine (6.2-liter V8), its placing isn't hard to figure out.

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Brian Sy is a featured contributor for vLane.