With gas prices topping $3 a gallon and the cost of lemon-lime soda well below 30 cents a can, Pontiac in conjunction with "Coke" announced the unveiling of their elegant new "Sprite (tm)" powered SUV at Detroit's annual auto show in Omaha last Sunday. One Omaha reporter who took one of the first test drives said,
"The ride is smooth, it's clean it's crisp, bubbly even and I got over 37 miles to the gallon. The only problem was getting 10 gallons of Sprite into the fuel tank."
Coca Cola says that currently no gas pumps are outfitted with Sprite pumping capability but they say that this will change as customers and their pocketbooks come to experience the pure joy of never buying gasoline again but rather using cool, crisp refreshing tankfuls of Sprite to power their vehicles.
"Plus you can drink it" one young Omaha preschooler said.
"Yes you CAN drink it" says Car and Track magazine. "Or use it as fuel" they added. Initial reaction to the new lemon-lime powered SUV has been mixed. Pontiac, deluged with consumer questions published the following faq ..
Q -> Doesn't sugar destroy an engine?
A --> Not if you use diet Sprite powered by Nutrasweet.
Q -> What about 7-UP or Mountain Dew? Will those lemon-lime sodas work too?
A --> You can try pouring 10 gallons of 7-up or Mountain Dew into your tank but we don't recommend it at this juncture. Our engine only works with ice old refreshing Sprite.
"SprYte", the name given to Ponti-Coke's new SUV has attracted media attention worldwide. Pontiac affiliate Opra Winfrey on Thursday's show even hinted at giving away even more "free" cars, the innovative "SprYte" being one of them. She said,
"I know you folks had to pay a few thousand dollars tax on the last free cars I gave you I'm sorry. My boo. But, trust me, this one's different. It's powered by Sprite. I'll even pay some of your taxes for you. As long as they don't exceed two hundred dollars. And you live in the state of Rhode Island. South of 32'nd street. In a duplex. Facing north."
OPEC nations, inside sources say, are not yet feeling threatened by this developing citrus-based technology but are, sources say, slowly increasing their production of lemons and limes.
