How different Lennon and McCartney were!

Will he also be horrified to learn that the car does a pathetic 21 MPG ?

21 mpg and SULEV rating is uber impressive for a 430 hp car, not the air freight part...

At least Paul McCartney is aware of the carbon footprint of flying a plane from Japan to Britain. Some times the best intentions do more damage than good.

Dagny McKinley
www.onnotextiles.com
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21 mpg and SULEV rating is uber impressive for a 430 hp car, not the air freight part...

Well, if it is a gift (and not a requested one), you can't really blame Macca for the freight. Not that the article did.

But someone at Lexus certainly looks bad now.

I'm confused. The article doesn't say that the plane was *chartered* just to deliver this car-- in fact it sounds like it was in the hold of a scheduled KAL flight. So if the car was just shipped in cargo on a regularly scheduled flight, surely the carbon footprint of the air freight is not all that horrendous in this case. The flight would have flown regardless-- at most there might be a small, very small, incremental fuel cost.

With all due respect to Mike Rigby (any relation to Eleanor?), the Cute One has little to apologize for here.

Someone at Lexus ought to look bad for putting out a hybrid with such pathetic fuel economy to start with. What's the point?

LOL that's about the same fuel economy as the hybrid tahoe.

I always laugh when I watch "The Green" on Sundance Channel ( a treehugger "affiliate") which is prominantely
sponsored by "Lexus- Hybrid Living"... Lexus is just Toyota's disguise for trying to sell gas bloated luxury "tanks" to the US market, so it should not come at any suprise when they
deliver this 21 mpg monster.

Paul should be ashamed.

Cheers,
Tom-tom

Hypocrite!
What about the carbon footprint of his New World Tour?

McCartney just announced a new World Tour starting this fall. For at least 14 months McCartney and his following will fly from continent to continent, from city to city. Truckloads of gear and equipment will be transported from venue to venue all over the globe. Think of the electricity required for the concerts and the carbon dioxide fans will produce to get to the shows. On top of that McCartney has the habbit of flying to "home" in between concerts by private jet. If McCartney is such an environmentalist and campaigner for 'Green Issues' he will serve the 'cause' better by staying at home. If he finally will offer his fans a "complete" concert on dvd for once in his life, everybody will be happy.

There should be rating for hypocrisy ... which would be far more telling than MPG.

Funny how the rich and famous lecture us on "living green" when their jobs and lifestyle consume so much energy that I'd have to live a dozen lives to come close. Movie making in CA is the second largest polluter I have read.

Of course I go to the movies just like everybody else so I suppose I am part of the problem too.

Well... at least he doesn't eat meat. That should offset some of his excessive generation of carbon.

Perhaps we should applaud the fact that this 430 hp car gets 21mpg. a non hybrid version would get about 10. That seems like an improvement. In order for there to be change there has to be better choices. Not everyone wants a Prius. For those that want a performance vehicle...this is a good step. Don't sacrifice good (or better) for the sake of perfect. Putting a car in the belly of an already full KAL 747 would only increase the fuel burn by about 20 gallons. This is minimal.

Perhaps we should applaud the fact that this 430 hp car gets 21mpg. a non hybrid version would get about 10. That seems like an improvement. In order for there to be change there has to be better choices. Not everyone wants a Prius. For those that want a performance vehicle...this is a good step. Don't sacrifice good (or better) for the sake of perfect. Putting a car in the belly of an already full KAL 747 would only increase the fuel burn by about 20 gallons. This is minimal.

I generally like the cars Lexus makes, but the LS 600 H is an absolute travesty. The people who buy it (McCartney included) most likely don't realize that its near-identical non-hybrid sibling, the Lexus LS 460 L, is both faster and gets better gas mileage using a conventional gas engine, and costs $30,000 MORE!. In other words, Lexus would have made a better green car by simply slapping a "Hybrid" green sticker on the existing LS 460L, and charging idiots and extra $30K for it. I'm all for hybrid technology, but more expensive, slower, and worse mileage smacks of the worst sort of greenwashing.

I work out of the Lexus headquarters in Torrance Calif., and I just spoke with one of our lifestyle marketing folks about what’s being reported. She said that the vehicle was part of a marketing partnership with Paul McCartney and was produced as a special “one-off” vehicle (special paint, interior, etc.) to meet Paul’s requests. To ensure the car’s quality, make sure security guidelines were met and meet a scheduled marketing photography deadline, it was air-shipped on a regularly scheduled commercial flight over to the UK. Just want everyone to know the story behind the story.

Scott DeYager
Toyota Motor Sales, USA
Corporate Communications

Instead of worrying about your stupid car making a carbon imprint, why don't you worry about the kid in your video getting custody of her son? Especially since your lying ass caused her to loose custody!!! How dare you try to sick your nasty dried up bitch lawyer on me, and make me look like a hooker! I can't believe I voted for your Knighthood. John would have keeled over dead before they shot him if he had known you were going to pull this stunt. I hope you never see your new daughter again! I feel sorry for her, knowing all the crap she will probably have to go thru because of you. Good Bye and Good Riddance!!!

Because the one thing McCartney desperately needs is a(nother) custom finished gas guzzler imported directly from the manufacturer halfway across the globe, just for him and his monster sized ego.
What a complete twit that man is. Such a shame.