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Each of these engines have achieved that amount in stop-and-go New York City traffic.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout New York City, yellow taxis—including cars and vans—navigate the busy city streets. Elsewhere, a black-haired man wearing a green, button-up shirt with a “Quaker State” logo—a golden “Q” partially framing the words “Quaker State” in white—stands behind a workbench. Behind him, tool cabinets line a brick wall. To the man’s left and right, a tool box, small auto parts and others items rest on the bench.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text displays]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff Hsu – Engine Oil Development Lead.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJEFF HSU: For a little perspective, it would take an average American 42 years to reach that amount of miles.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA man in a gray suit steps onto a city street and approaches the rear right passenger door of a taxi. Inside a taxi, a meter mounted on the dashboard calculates the fare amount as the driver moves through traffic.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJEFF HSU: But, on average, New York City taxis achieve this amount of miles in six years in very harsh engine conditions.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral taxis idle in a lane of traffic. In the auto shop, a gray-haired, bespectacled man stands near a taxi cab with a raised hood.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text displays]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBob Montgomery – New York City Taxi Fleet Operations.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBOB MONTGOMERY: If you’re not out there doing fares, picking people up, somebody else is. And if you’ve got a lot of down time, it has to come back to the shop, and that means the car’s not out there on the street collecting money for the owner. New York City taxi cab services are very severe on a motor oil, uh, because of the constant accelerations and decelerations. There is excessive idle time throughout the day, which makes the engine oil run hotter.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the city, taxis idle in heavy traffic or drive along busy streets.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBOB MONTGOMERY: We’re quite confident that, if our oil looks good in this application, it’ll definitely look good in a consumer’s car.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the auto shop, two men remove the engine from a taxi.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBOB MONTGOMERY: What we’re going to do now is we’re going to assess how well the engine oil protected the engine. This particular engine has approximately 521,000 miles on it.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA bald, bespectacled man wearing a green Quaker State shirt holds an engine piston in his gloved hands.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text displays]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPaul Greenland – Fleet Operation and Testing Engineer.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPAUL GREENLAND: Okay, here’s piston number eight we took out of the engine—the last piston to come out. And if you look at it, the rings are perfectly clear and moving back and forth. The oil ring is clear. There’s no sludge or it’s not stuck. There’s no scratches or scoring. They’re completely clean. There’s hardly any varnish on there.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPaul peers through a magnifying lens at the piston as he spins it on a round platform.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPAUL GREENLAND: I’m looking at the top land of the piston, looking at the deposits for carving and varnish and it looks excellent. There’s no heavy carving on the piston.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff Hsu stands behind the workbench.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E [Audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJEFF HSU: Now that’s an engine that’s taken a lot of beating, and this is why we test Quaker State Advanced Durability in New York City taxis and not just in a laboratory.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff places a green, quart-sized bottle of Quaker State Advanced Durability Motor Oil on the workbench.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Graphic]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWords appear on a gray background beside a photo of a bottle of Quaker State Oil:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text displays]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvanced Durability: Double the wear protection (compared to industry standard Sequence IVA.); Maintains Viscosity; Provides Corrosion 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