fastback

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Recent Examples of fastback Based on the more humble A7 fastback sedan, it was worked over by Audi Sport, the four rings' racing offshoot based up the road from Ingolstadt in Neckarsulm, Germany. Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2024 Although Sony Honda Mobility has not yet disclosed the production model's exact name, the four-door fastback saloon will go on sale at the end of 2025 after going up for pre-order in the first half of the year. New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024 Among the new design touches found in the Type 00 EV concept: A long hood, sweeping roofline and fastback profile. Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024 The Type 00 has a long bonnet and a fastback profile, as well as 23-inch alloy wheels. Jack Guy, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fastback
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Noun
  • The Mustang had an enticing base price of $2,368 for the hardtop, which was possible, in part, because the car shared Ford’s economical Falcon platform.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The carbon-fiber hardtop is integrated with a JL audio system, which has two speakers on the hardtop and six more around the cockpit.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Along with the coupes, convertibles, and radical mid-engined Hai, about 30 cars were the High Speed 375/4 model, an imposing four-door introduced in 1971 and built through 1976.
    Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Federal agents raided Menendez’s house in 2022 and found $480,000 in cash and $150,000 worth of gold bars hidden in the home, along with a Mercedes-Benz convertible in the garage and other valuables.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The hatchback will do a few miles less with the same battery options, at 367 miles (590 km) and 255 miles (410 km).
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025
  • While Kia will make both traditional and hatchback body styles of the EV4, only the former is coming our way.
    Kristin Shaw, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Top sealed, the multi-layer roof keeps the cabin impressively quiet—I’d argue on par with the coupe.
    Michael Harley, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • That car was also a very popular model for moonshiners in the southeastern part of the country as with minor modifications, the coupe could carry up to 130 gallons of moonshine and outrun the revenuers with the hot 85 HP V8 engine.
    David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rare notchback four-door sedans lack the cargo capacity and standout shape of the two- and four-door hatches.
    Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The cars were the only notchback ‘Stangs that the company built until the next year, when Shelby, apparently smitten with the green-colored coupe, commissioned a faithful replica (along with a triple-black version called, unsurprisingly, the Black Hornet).
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
Noun
  • If these two weren't enough to show how fun wagons can be for dogs, there are plenty of other benefits.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The tiny seeds caught a ride in their seed bags as well as on their boots and clothes, and the invading grass took hold everywhere their horses’ hooves and wagon wheels tread.
    Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout most of Hunter S. Thompson’s career, illustrator Ralph Steadman rode shotgun on the bending antennae of the author’s ragtop ’70s Caddy.
    Steve Garbarino, airmail.news, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The park’s historic Red Jammers, a fleet of 1930s ragtop tour buses, allow visitors to take in stunning mountain, lake and waterfall views from the road.
    Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
Noun
  • At one point, the driver of a black SUV waited 23 seconds while 39 people streamed across the street, then decided not to yield to the 40th and 41st pedestrians.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Four to five unknown suspects, all carrying guns, got out of a white Alfa Romeo SUV and approached the three students, who were walking on a sidewalk near 5800 South Dorchester Avenue at 5:15 a.m., police said.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025

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