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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schwepps" data-source="post: 362302" data-attributes="member: 3592">Not using a bit of a loophole, cempaka, but jumping through it! In my previous research, I read that when the arbitration court awarded the case to Castrol, "lube oil marketing execs throughout the US rubbed their hands in glee and started selling G-III as fully-synth, at fully-synth prices" This happened around 1999 and only a handful of US companies didn't jump on, Exxonmobil and Amsoil being two I can remember. The rest of the world has moved more slowly over, including UK and Australia. Here in bolehland? For sure, but I thought surely not Shell and Petronas.It is still illegal in Germany and Japan to call a G-III a fully-synth. Small wonder that Germany and Japan are the world's top car makers. The car industry in the US? Bankrupt. In the UK? Extinct. It's the high quality standards of Germany and Japan over smoke and mirrors fast buck marketing.</blockquote>