Even if the old clunker is still chugging along, you can always drum up reasons why you need to buy a new one.
The offerings include one soporific clunker, one engaging thrill-ride, and one terrific biopic.
Or that a car dealer's profit motive is to deliver an old clunker instead of the new car you paid for.
They purchase new, high-efficiency heating and cooling equipment and then attach it to a clunker of a duct system.
Unless you're driving a clunker, your vehicle will restart.
Make sure you're prepared before upgrading your old clunker.
British Dictionary definitions for clunker
clunker
/ˈklʌŋkə/
noun (informal)
1.
(mainly US) a dilapidated old car or other machine
2.
something that fails: the novel's last line is a clunker
Word Origin and History for clunker
n.
"anything inferior," 1940s, agent noun from clunk (v.), probably in imitation of the sounds made by old machinery. Specific sense of "old car" was in use by 1951 (clunk in the sense "old worn-out machine" is from 1940s).
Slang definitions & phrases for clunker
clunker
noun
Anything inferior; lemon, turkey: His last clunker was Lolly Madonna(1940s+)
An old, worn-out machine, esp a car; clunk, jalopy: let in someone in an old clunker with a broken muffler and a fuming exhaust(1950s+)
clumsy person, esp an unskillful athlete; duffer, hacker: Tell one of those clunkers what a great stroke he has(1940s+)