Sentences with phrase «of gas guzzling»

In the school car parks I can see a pile of gas guzzling 4 wheel drives: staff and students alike.

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

I am not completely discounting this being a possible necessary govt role because what happens if a sizeable proportion of people are rich enough and want to retain use of gas guzzling muscle ICE cars as status symbols despite high carbon taxes while it also becomes clear we need to get to zero net emissions?

The days of gas guzzling V8, V10 or even V12 are limited.

Many of us have a mindset that big and luxurious cars are expensive to run on a daily basis because of their gas guzzling... Read More

We walked in looking to get out of our gas guzzling SUV, but keeping our options open.

Not exact matches

The woes of the Big Three are well known: an overdependence on gas - guzzling SUVs, massive pension obligations, and a dearth of good design.

They were eating a lot of profit by using the gas - guzzling Beer Wagon to personally pick up and deliver the suds.

The crossover would add to Mercedes's growing line of lucrative top - end vehicles, such as this year's gas - guzzling AMG GT four - door coupe, as the world's biggest luxury - car maker seeks revenue to finance its expensive shift to battery technology.

The gas - guzzling giant will likely be looking to import in much larger quantities of heavy oil from Canada, Mexico and Colombia to meet demand, and Mexico would be foolish to say no to an influx of dollars.

He may have lots of sentimental value, like a gas - guzzling DeSoto, but he isn't meant for today's values and also costs too much to keep up.

It really does begin with our excessive spending on unnecessary things such as huge houses, gas - guzzling vehicles and lots of «pretty» and «I want» things that we can't really afford.

Then when the gas prices soared it wasn't because every pretencious doorknob who cant think for themselves bought a gas guzzling, unsafe peice of garbage

On this the holiest of Capitalisms holidays lets us celebrate crass consumption by driving our gas guzzling SUVs to the strip mall on the other side of town and fighting the other sheeple for latest Chinese sweat labor made cheap plastic gadget.

The most popular vehicles are of the gas - guzzling sort: SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks, often with adjusted seats.

Feeding time can come with a lot of crying, gulping, guzzling, and suckling — in other words, a lot of air, which eventually manifests itself in the form of a burp or gas.

Sure, it takes a little more effort to be super-green, but if you feel guilty about tossing out bags and bags of garbage and driving a gas - guzzling SUV, maybe you should change your life - style to soothe that guilt rather than convince yourself that it is OK to continue to pollute and trash the planet as long as you use energy efficient bulbs.

The question of whether or not to impose green taxes on gas guzzling cars caused division in Westminster again today, with three members of an environmental commission launching a minority report calling the idea «retrospective taxation» while the rest of the committee called for more radical proposals.

De Blasio has come under fire for his jaunts because they require a motorcade of gas - guzzling SUVs to shuttle him between the boroughs.

PARK SLOPE — Mayor Bill de Blasio said his regular 12 - mile trek from Gracie Mansion to his Park Slope gym is a reminder of his roots as he brushed off criticism Friday over his gas - guzzling routine.

AUSTIN, Texas — To reduce your impact on air quality, you might expect to trade in your gas - guzzling clunker of a car — but you can also unplug those air fresheners.

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

Still, fueling a vehicle like the Clarity emits less than half the CO2 released by its gas - guzzling counterparts for a given distance, says John Turner of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

In 1980 ads for the compact Ford Escort boasted a higher gas mileage rating than smaller cars like the Volkswagen Rabbit; 20 years later, gas - guzzling SUVs were racing through the pages of Discover instead.

The cloud of cool gas might also be providing food for the guzzling black holes.

Nissan and Toyota are developing special all - electric versions of luxury cars, the gas - guzzling versions of which are popular among government officials.

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«We can think of one blazar class as a gas - guzzling car and the other as an energy - efficient electric vehicle,» study lead researcher Marco Ajello, an astrophysicist at Clemson University in South Carolina, said in a statement.

Some of that gas powered the jets of the «gas - guzzling» FSRQs, while the rest fell into the black holes, increasing their spins.

«ALMA Sheds Light on Planet - Forming Gas Streams — Tantalising signs of flows feeding gas - guzzling giant planets» The above article published in January 2013 by S. Casassus describes the planet formation in the disk closer to the central star, but there is no discussion on the planet formation in the outer diGas Streams — Tantalising signs of flows feeding gas - guzzling giant planets» The above article published in January 2013 by S. Casassus describes the planet formation in the disk closer to the central star, but there is no discussion on the planet formation in the outer digas - guzzling giant planets» The above article published in January 2013 by S. Casassus describes the planet formation in the disk closer to the central star, but there is no discussion on the planet formation in the outer disk.

And with Smart Cars, especially the yellow ones, you have the perfect combination of efficiency, function and a funky look, to offset the ugly, gas guzzling SVU's.

With oil approaching $ 100 per barrel and a trip to the pumps capable of inflicting a like - size dent in your wallet, big trucks that don't guzzle gas on an ordinary commute seem like manna from the Middle East.

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.

Some may think the era of the gigantic, gas - guzzling SUV is over, but I found Nissan's aging eight - seat Armada to be exceptionally practical, spacious and comfortable.

Choosing the right model takes a bit of number crunching, as many hybrid / electric models are more expensive than their gas - guzzling cousins, yet the savings in gas and government incentives can offset the difference.

Landing on U.S. shores on the heels of the 1973 oil crisis, the lightweight, efficient, and affordable B210 proved quite popular with consumers who were looking to escape the two - ton gas - guzzling albatross from major American automakers.

Sure, if we had the luxury of disregarding prices, we'd choose the gas - guzzling, mid-engine Ferrari over the Corvette.

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.

Mated to an 8 - speed automatic, it guzzles regular grade gas and in our week of testing, achieved 31 MPG in mixed city and highway driving — unbelievable for a vehicle of this size with AWD.

As the former owner of a gas - guzzling Denali, I welcome any news to up the fuel economy of these great, but hungry, vehicles.

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?

The 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander is a compact SUV which provides the perfect amount of space, luxury, and power without guzzling gas.

You don't necessarily need a huge, gas - guzzling SUV to carry all of your stuff.

The good news is that air is free, and that means that if you can make better combustion by leaning heavier on the air usage than gas guzzling, then you've just cracked the code of the modern muscle car.

Faster, sleeker, and sportier than the Monaco of old, the new Dodge Monaco is nothing like the boxy gas guzzling Monaco that bowed out of the Dodge lineup a dozen years ago.

First of all, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is a gas guzzling machine, do not expect to receive great fuel mileage as you won't, even in full time two wheel drive.

This officially makes it larger than any other VW offered here in the states (VW is really hoping to impress all of us size - obsessed, gas guzzling Americans, huh?)

Who doesn't want to be able to carry people and cargo at will and yet not have the gas guzzling expense of a full - size SUV?

But what I don't want to hear in connection with this grand old American tradition is a lot of guff about gas - guzzling dinosaurs.

Family cars have undergone a great deal of change over the past decades, from massive wagons, to minivans, to gas guzzling SUVs, and now to crossovers.