Originally posted by Tisby:
Some companies sued for the right to deceive us or soemthing like that,

Castrol was sued by Mobil when they (Castrol) started claiming their Group III hydrocracked oils were "synthetic". Their reasoning was that since the oil was so highly modified from its original form, it was indistinguishable from a true synthetic and they should be allowed to call it synthetic. Mobil disagreed. Unfortunately, Mobil lost and now EVERY oil company has a "synthetic" for sale.

For the record, the only TRUE synthetic oils (Group IV) are Mobil 1, AMSOIL, Royal Purple, and Red Line, along with a small handful of boutique oils that are either very expensive or relatively hard to find. All the others are Group III mineral oils.

(BTW, this doesn't make them bad oils...on the contrary, most are very high quality...they're just not true synthetics)

As for the "Mag 1" oil, it's apparently made by Warren Distribution of Cleveland, a private label re-bottler. Is it any good?...damned if I know...there isn't much info available on it. If it's cheap enough, it might be a good value for vehicles that see light duty;

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