Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Originally Posted By: Cooper
You should just have in your signature, "Pennzoil Basher". Seriously, all of your posts are just speculation, and whatever kool-aid you decided to drink that day. Until we see some testing on the new
GTL Pure Plus, nothing you say holds any water to most BITOGer's.
Pennzoil is not going to put out an inferior product!
You really think they would spend billions on a technology and put it out and it be junk? Do you think it is going to wear out an engine and largely increase wear metals? It will be tested and proven soon enough....
Your posts are full of the words "seem to" "could have" etc. You also say it is an inferior quality base oil or inferior quality GTL.....I do believe you can't prove this, but again, I would like to see you try.
While I'm sure Pennzoil makes a fine product, (I’m very happy with how PYB performs in my cars) how do you know just how many "billions" Sopus had spent on GTL? Show us the proof, just like you asked in your post.
GTL is nothing new and was used excessively by Germans in WW2 out of necessity. That's not to say that the oil companies don't invest in improving this technology, but
assuming how much it costs them is pure guess work unless someone has the insider's knowledge, which is highly unlikely. Now the marketing muscle has been stretched by oil companies calling it "Technology" and people start
assuming all sorts of wonderful things this new "technology" must be. After all companies don't throw the word "technology" around for no reason
Speking of
assuming, lets
assume that we do know how much an oil company had invested in GTL. How is that a guarantee that the product will be good? We all know that it costs the automakers an enormous amount of money to develop new car models, but they still have problems, sometimes big ones. So, the amount of money that a company spent developing something has little bearing on the quality and performance of the final product. Development costs show how efficient or not efficient a company is with allocating their resources and is a good measure for possible investment opportunities, nothing more.
Making
assumptions that just because something cost "billions" (unverified at that) to develop must be good is plain old silly.
Shell GTL plant cost was between $18-$19 Billion dollars....and that is not including development, engineering, testing, production, quality control, etc.....
HERE is the overview of the plant. How is it not verified? Very easy to find. Have a nice day!
As for testing, if you don't believe Pennzoil's testing that they have already conducted and have listed on their website.....
PQIA will have the PurePlus oils listed soon and tested. There will also be UOA's showing up soon on here. That is as close as you are going to get. We are all waiting for that. To assume it is inferior before those show up is ignorant at best. The smart money would be on assuming Pennzoil spent enough money to not put out a product that is a dud.... Their livelihood depends on it.
Bashing a product without proof is a lot more of an assumption than following the trend that Pennzoil makes a premium product and will continue to do so.