Twenty Best Cars and Trucks for Destroying the Earth
From Brian Sy, Featured Contributor
Posted on April 21, 2008
Filed under Humor, Top 10
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.
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