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Are Big Three Pickups Abominations?
By James B. Bleeker
For some, the answer to the query may lie in the amount of smog-forming pollutants that Big 3 pickups throw into the earth's atmosphere. The following chart depicts the fleet smog-forming emission averages of the small pickup trucks of the Big 3 - General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG - relative to the small-pickup-fleet smog-forming emission average of Toyota Motor Corporation.
Each percentage depicted in the above chart is the percent that the respective manufacturer's fleet smog-forming emission average for small pickups exceeds Toyota's small-pickup average, so an average small pickup from the Chrysler Group emits 344% more smog-forming pollutants than, or about 4.5 times as much smog-forming pollution as, an average small Toyota pickup. An average small pickup by either Ford or GM emits more than double the smog-forming pollutants than an average small pickup by Toyota.
The next chart depicts the fleet smog-forming emission averages of the large pickup trucks of the Big 3 relative to that of Toyota Motor Corporation.
Here we see that the smog-forming emission average of the Chrysler Group's large pickups is 91% greater than that of Toyota's large pickups, or in other words, an average large pickup by the Chrysler Group emits nearly twice as much smog-forming pollution into the earth's atmosphere as does an average large Toyota pickup.
For some GM owners, the answer to the query "Are GM pickups abominations?" may lie in their speedy dilapidation. The following chart extrapolates Toyota's Tacoma pickup Reliability Score averages to that age range when its averages reach the depth's of GM's S-10/15 pickup Reliability Score average at the age range 2-to-4 years.
The chart suggests that GM's small pickups may dilapidate 20-to-30 times faster than Toyota's Tacoma.
For other owners, the answer to whether GM pickups are abominations may lie in GM's steadfast refusal to replace or repair its piston-slapping engines when engine knock commences outside the lemon-law statutory period. See Mini-Survey No. 65: GM's Piston Slap - Engine Knock.
Source for emission averages: Automaker Rankings 2007: The Environmental Performance of Car Companies, by Don MacKenzie, Union of Concerned Scientists, April 2007, accessible from http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/honda-toyota-beat-detroit-in-0021.html
Source for Reliability Score Averages: Table I-MVRS
The following poll permits the reader to express his/her assessment on General Motors Corporation.
To view responses to the above poll, click here.
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