fastback

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Recent Examples of fastback The sporty fastback appeared that August as a 1965 model, rounding out the lineup. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2025 Mercedes-Benz was the first to launch a SAE Level 3 system in commercial vehicles in Europe and the US, with its EQS fastback EV and ICE S-Class sedan back in 2023. New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025 For its asking price, this fastback saloon gets a 482 hp (359 kW) all-wheel-drive powertrain. New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2025 The Saloon has a sloping fastback shape with unique rectangular lights in the front and rear that resemble a vintage Black & Decker Dustbuster. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fastback
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Noun
  • Integrated into the roof is a fold-out hardtop tent that functions similarly to the iKamper Skycamp or Porsche 911 tent.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 July 2025
  • Video demonstrations of its transition from flight mode to driving show the two wings retracting and folding in on themselves, somewhat resembling a hardtop convertible.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Details like the badging and trim are in gloss on the coupé version and matte on the convertible to contrast with the body coating.
    Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Lisa Vanderpump wore a cape made of feather boas and a giant hat while driving through the 2019 Pride event in the back of a convertible.
    Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The steering wheel and gauge cluster were offset by two inches, while the climate controls, identical to the Murciélago’s, were taken from a Rover 45 hatchback.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Rivals for the Mazda 3’s hatchback include the Honda Civic hatchback, Subaru Impreza, Volkswagen Golf GTI and Toyota GR Corolla.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Rear seats are standard on the leather-upholstered interior of the Targa and Cabriolet, but not the coupe.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 July 2025
  • Strain martini through a fine mesh sieve into a coupe or other martini glass.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 5 July 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
  • Israel can and must be the engine of the crypto industry rather than a trailing wagon.
    Tomer Niv, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Everything from the Conestoga wagon to early computer processing was developed along it.
    James Dodson July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • As Bronson Pinchot’s hapless character, Elliot, is speeding in his ragtop Porsche with a girl bent over his lap along a 15 mph curve on Mulholland Drive, cop lights go off behind him.
    Steve Garbarino, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • White is believed to have been taken away in the SUV with an unknown license plate, police said in the Amber Alert.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 12 July 2025
  • Authorities said in criminal complaints filed in both Minidoka and Cassia counties that Benjamin Roy Naylor, 56, entered the homes of three of the victims Tuesday and shot them to death, and also was responsible for the fatal shooting of a man whose body was found in an SUV.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 11 July 2025

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“Fastback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastback. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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