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Using Snake Oil to Sell Hummers?




Some Detroit area Hummer dealers are resorting to questionable tactics to help move the metal. The trick? An unauthorized, untested, unsanctioned "Mileage Maximizer" that claims to boost H3's highway mileage from the high teens into the mid twenties. GM and Hummer say that they may not honor warranties of the modified vehicles and the EPA, when questioned by a WSJ reporter, had its own concerns about emissions. The product, from Air Synergy Labs, located in...wait for it...wait for it...Las Vegas, NV, is supposedly capable of creating a "Vortex Valve" that changes air flow. Whatever. I'm more than skeptical about this, but you be the judge. The same website that sells the device also sells a "Cash Generator" which is a point of sale rotating rack display stuffed full of the devices.

via WSJ