Clyde, I'll have to disagree with you on a couple of points.
The engine's "power" and the truck's fuel economy do not go hand in hand as you suggest it should. Considering it is a truck designed for off-road use, with no priority given to aero for a reason and it's higher weight in it's class, it get's pretty damn good gas mileage.
Secondly, GM is a car business. Residual value is not high on their business plan for vehicles. The idea is to indroduce a vehicle and sell the crap out of it and then keep improving that vehicle and turn over new vehicle sales as much as possible. If the buyer would do it and the market was capable the process would be set up to make buyers want to buy a new version every year with revisions or improvements to create that desire.
As far as your ideas about the mileage, mileage estimates are not based on speeds of the speed limits on the interstate or higher.
It sounds more like YOU were trying to force a square peg in a round hole. The H3 obviously is not for you if your major concern is it's MPG estimates. That's fine, but you signed your post with "H2 wannabe" and you can expect to average around 12mpg with it and even though it has a 6.0L V-8, it still weighs 7K lbs and has the aero of a barn.
So, I guess I take some exception to your post because it's not making a whole lot of sense to me.
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