A 20 year old Honda civic is hardly a gas guzzler. Under real driving conditions cars that are being sold new today have about the same emissions and fuel consu

A 20 year old Honda civic is hardly a gas guzzler. Under real driving conditions cars that are being sold new today have about the same emissions and fuel consumption as cars 20 years ago, with the exception of very large v8 engines and models like the The Suburban and the H2. You can only really start talking about old cars being generally 'gas guzzlers' if you go back to the malaise era in the 70s.