Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

[Rekin]

For anyone who missed it, ABC's Four Corners did a story about Firepower which created pills for your car.

These apparently improved efficiency, power blah blah

Turns out it was a massive scam and it did nothing (took them until 2006 to realise this???)

Found it surprising that a lot of people fell for it especially the government..

Anyways, Info can be found here;

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2306960.htm

And a video of the story here;

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/200.../interviews.htm

I think a couple of days ago i saw similar pills for sale at a local auto store lol

[Swiper the Fox]

For anyone who missed it, ABC's Four Corners did a story about Firepower which created pills for your car.

These apparently improved efficiency, power blah blah

Turns out it was a massive scam and it did nothing (took them until 2006 to realise this???)

Found it surprising that a lot of people fell for it especially the government..

Anyways, Info can be found here;

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2306960.htm

And a video of the story here;

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/200.../interviews.htm

I think a couple of days ago i saw similar pills for sale at a local auto store lol

most pills you buy these days do nothing

[sammus]

there are so many problems with what they were claiming. only people who took notice of it was a) idiot investors who got taken in by the bs and b) the reporters. it's a shame ASIC was late in taking proper notice.

how about the scum CEO who is now claiming naivety. i have no doubt his appearance the other night was on the advice of his solicitors. i read an article a while back about him being on child sex charges.

[scathing]

Dans Data has linked to SAU regarding the whole Firepower thing in this thread.

Being a scientific sort, he's already debunked these fuel pill things regularly, and gotten stuck in to Firepower (to a point where the directors were insulting him via email and threatened to sue him. Typical quackery.

You can read more about Firepower here.

[Beer Baron]

yes, fuel pills, fuel polarizers etc have long been a mildly funny joke in the auto industry. lots of people get caught up in it though.

[GTS4WD]

Usually, when you try sell pills you go to goal.. so i think he got off pretty well

[TiTAN]

Slightly different contents and intended use there GTS4WD.

[ZENNON]

most pills you buy these days do nothing

i lol'ed

[West]

We all know there is only one type of PILL that works.

[bozodos]

hey not so harsh on the old energy polarisers, many HDT owners swear they improve the car's dynamics considerably! (also cars fitted with em are worth a fortune!)

Don't fancy driving around with the tyres inflated to the recommended spec of 22psi though.

You'd have to be soft in the head to have ever thought that those pills had any sort of benefit, I would have thought that it would have been obvious it was a scam when nobody saved money from using them.