Sentences with phrase «guzzling engine»

FUEL ECONOMY / FUN FACTOR The Mini is proof that you don't need a big, gas - guzzling engine under the hood to have massive amounts of driving satisfaction.

Second, higher gas taxes make alternative fuel - efficient vehicles like hybrids and electric plug - ins even more attractive compared to gas - guzzling engines.

Not exact matches

Jets are banned and, anyway, fuel - guzzling jet engines have never fit Porter's business plan, which calls for fuel - efficient planes with low break - even load factors.

Imagine a world without gas - guzzling combustion engines (it's easy if you try), where much of our technology isn't dependent on oil.

It's two jet engines generate 110,000 horsepower — about a thousand times more than a Ford Escort — guzzle 5 gallons of fuel a second, and take about thirty seconds to get the 54 - foot - long, 7 - ton car up to supersonic speeds.

CARS.COM — Full - size SUVs can weigh more than 5,000 pounds, and many come with gas - guzzling V - 8 engines, so fuel efficiency isn't one of their strong points.

We've achieved good figures from the Fiesta before but turbocharged engines do guzzle fuel at quite a rate when driven briskly, so the real - world difference is likely to be minimal.

Unlike a traditional fuel - guzzling American luxury car, this Caddy concept foregoes a big V - 8 engine in favor of a powerplant more in keeping with today's volatile fuel prices.

Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas - guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams?

Featuring a 1.4 liter gasoline engine and a 20 KW electric motor working in tandem to provide 45 MPG fuel economy and peppy performance, the Jetta Hybrid can go from sitting still to 60 MPH in under 9 seconds, and do it without guzzling the gas.

The engine & CVT is set for max engine performance not gas guzzling.

This gas - guzzling truck sports a 5.7 - liter V8 engine under the hood, yielding only 13 mpg in the city and 18 mpg cruising on the highway.

The 5.9 - liter engine didn't guzzle fuel as heartily as might be expected, averaging 15 mpg in city driving.

The base four - cylinder engines are now tremendously capable, almost putting the old 4.2 - liter V8s to shame without guzzling gas.

Instead, domestic automakers built muscle cars - small and mid-size coupes with big, gas - guzzling V - 8 engines, such as Pontiac's GTO and Ford's Shelby Mustang.

It's «green»: We put green in parenthesis because it's still a gas - guzzling sports car, powered by a V8 engine, to some extent.

The 1.8 - liter engine on Jetta SE Sport and SEL variants is an older design and guzzles a lot more fuel despite only adding 20 horsepower.

The 8.1 L V - 8 is known for many things, however fuel economy is not one of them and the engine has a tendency to guzzle fuel at a high rate.

So the new hybrides are offering super power cars where the electric function extends the power performance of their gas guzzling Vx engines.

with the engine still running, guzzling petrol and burping out poison into the surrounding air, would be seen as actively malevolent.