Originally Posted By: ericthepig
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
Mobil 1. Even if Syntec were a better oil, Castrol's whole marketing of it as "synthetic" years back really set me off. And that opened the whole can of worms with hydro-cracked oils being labeled as syn.
And now Castrol (BP) has been called out on their apparently untruthful advertising on GSK (that it has 57% better sludge protection yada yada).
Castrol needs to start playing straight pool for a few years before I'll fully respect them.
We agree: Castrol's advertising stinks. I assume the company is trying to find some means of drawing attention to their products in a sea of competitors, and they must think it's working. Too bad.
But, push that aside and focus on the product. As another gentleman suggested, a better match-up would be Edge vs. M1, rather than M1 vs. Syntec. Between the latter two, I'd choose M1. But, now that Castrol has cut the price on Edge by roughly a third, if the match-up were Edge vs. M1, I'd go with Edge.
More interesting yet will be whether Castrol pulls Edge from the U.S. market or, perhaps, replaces Syntec with Edge.