TURBONATOR: Its magic!

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Jesda
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http://www.popularmechanics.co...1&c=y

Actually, its crap. Popular Mechanics reviews and tests some gimmicky fuel-saving power-boosting gadgets by putting a truck on a dyno and running it until empty. The funny thing is, they ordered some of them directly from ads in their own magazine.


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S13inBatnRuge
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when i first started nico under the name Niteboo i viewed several threads about this horse crap of a product. what i was amazed to find out was that there was already some sort of device that twirls the air. i would buy it and sell it to the honda phreaks as the new revolutionary turbo setup.your rice is not complete without big yellow fake stickers and the new TURBONATOR.

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Jesda wrote:... The funny thing is, they ordered some of them directly from ads in their own magazine.
Now that is funny.

(We work to try and keep them out of the google ads )

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c'mon guys... we all know magic has been around for some 2000 years now!

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Red coupe
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Golden! Ive seen threads even here were people argued that the tornado thing actually can help. I think the real question is what are the manufactures of these products doing to come up with these outrages claims, and even false video tapes of the product "Working"

How do they get away with out being called for false advertising?

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Quote »Prediction: Within a few weeks after the appearance of this article, there will be gas-saving gadgets on the market that tout themselves as "Featured in Popular Mechanics." Someone will buy them. Probably not you.[/quote]I like that paragraph.

thekage
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I think Getdep should introduce somthing along the lines of the turbonater to exapand thier gas saving products..

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Of course, this begs the question: Are those ads still run in Popular Mechanics? I bet they are.step1: Restrict air flowstep2:???step3:More HP!

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sounds like something the underpants gnomes would say.

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Great article, maybe I should go take out my turbonator and my capacitor boxes on my spark plug lines.... na, they look cool.


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