Thesaurus results for GAS-GUZZLER

gas-guzzler

noun

as in coupé

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Recent Examples of gas-guzzler The Biden administration certainly recognizes this, having last week laid out a timeline for phasing out gas-guzzlers within the next eight years, so by 2032 most new cars in the U.S. will have to be zero-carbon (there’s still some scope for hybrids, which is contentious in itself). —

David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024 Hybrid vehicles — a neat balance between a gas-guzzler and an EV — are all the rage. —

William Gavin, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024 The price increase is a result of the new seventh-generation pony car getting hit with a gas-guzzler tax, which applies to vehicles that don't meet federal fuel-economy standards. —

Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023 The Demon 170 carries a starting price of $100,361 after destination fees and the federal gas-guzzler tax. —

Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023 If that price wasn't enough to set your wallet aflame, there's also the matter of the Purosangue's inevitable gas-guzzler tax. —

Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023

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Meanwhile, fans, mostly teenage girls (some carrying their schoolbooks), crowd the barriers at the Plaza Hotel, penetrate its halls, press their faces to the windows of the limousine carrying the band to the Sullivan show, and chase it down the street.

Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Most of Jag’s efforts since Ford bought it in 1990 for $2.5 billion went in the other direction: seeking to build midsize and compact sport sedans that would sell in higher numbers than its traditional limousines.

Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2024