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Every now and then, a car comes along that doesn't just break the mold. No, it completely forgets there was a mold to begin ...
It's hard to imagine a car with a jet engine in it, but Chrysler spent a lot of time and money trying to make its turbine engine work for everyday drivers.
Two years before Americans landed on the moon, Parnelli Jones nearly won the Indy 500 with a turbine engine from a helicopter.
GM spent decades developing turbine engines and designing futuristic concept cars and trucks to put them in, but none of them made it to production.
After all, inline or v engines used to power cars have been utilized for aviation, and jet engines from aircraft have been tried in automobiles, like the Chrysler Turbine and Rover Jet1.
Under the metaphorical hood was a gas turbine — pretty much a jet engine — that operated at an unfathomable 35,000 rpm. The honor of the first gas-turbine-powered passenger car ever goes to ...
The turbine engine was smoother and simpler than piston engines, but poor fuel efficiency, high emissions levels, and a peculiar lag when accelerating helped to kill the chances of a mass-produced ...
One of only nine survivors, Jay Leno's 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car just got a brand-new turbine engine made by Williams International.
This custom race car generates 40 psi of static boost with a turbocharger setup that uses parts from a helicopter.