Ford Halts Battlestar Production

Environmentalists, Jewboy included, are dancing on their Yugos, Renaults, and Daewoos as Ford unofficially announced it is halting production of the 19 foot long Excursion, a Battlestar-class SUV. Among the reasons for the cancellation is to increase production of Ford's SuperDuty pickup trucks.

U.S. sales of the Excursion, which was launched in 1999, are
down 25 percent so far this year. The Sierra Club, which dubbed the Excursion
the "Ford Valdez" after the infamous Alaskan oil spill, called it an
environmental disaster because of its poor fuel economy rating. ... [T]he
Excursion gets about 14 miles per gallon on the highway and 10 miles per gallon
in the city.

Excursions, shown below

Whoops, I'm sorry that is the Battlestar Galactica. They're pretty close in size and have very similar styling so I get confused sometimes.
Below is an Excursion so you know what I'm talking about.

Anyway everyone loves to bitch about the bad mileage this Battlestar gets. People forget to remember what it can do! 19 feet long, weighs 3 tons, available 4 wheel drive, hauls 9 passengers, can tow up to 11,000 pounds, carries 44 gallons of fuel, has 4 attack squadrons of Colonial Vipers, point defense lasers... Oh I'm sorry, the last two specifications are for the Galactica, NOT the Excursion. Far too easy to get them confused. The point being that 25 years ago such a vehicle wouldn't have been as capable of these things and still would have gotten 10 miles to the gallon. At least with modern technology you get a lot more bang for the gallon.

Besides, with the third row seats flat and the hatch open you can still land a Viper at full approach speed.