gas turbine engine - no googling

VH · 01-09-2008 10:20pm #1

gas turbines were mad and made it into a few cars - you know the drill:)

colm_mcm · 01-09-2008 10:25pm

Batmobile?

maidhc · 01-09-2008 10:26pm

Rover something or other.... there is one in the science museum in London

Steve · 01-09-2008 10:28pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Batmobile?

*bam*
*pow*
LOL

Max_Damage · 01-09-2008 10:29pm

Chrysler made one back in the 60's. I think it was called the Chrysler Turbine or something like that.

ninty9er · 01-09-2008 11:24pm

Didn't the Renault 25 come with a gas powered engine at some stage, have no clue if it was a gas turbine...or is there another type?

VH · 01-09-2008 11:48pm

Was probably LPG (or similar).

Gas turbine is mad - looks like a jet engine in the middle of the car

ART6 · 02-09-2008 1:46pm

There was a Formula 1 team years ago that experimented for a season with GT engines as far as I recall, although I don't remember when or who.

Stevie Dakota · 02-09-2008 1:58pm

It was a Lotus, and banned immediately as I recall.

VH · 02-09-2008 2:06pm

Chrysler was the main proponent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g3QvkpMqc0

ART6 · 02-09-2008 4:51pm

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

It was a Lotus, and banned immediately as I recall.

That's the feller. Off topic, but wasn't there a problem that it was blisteringly fast when it got going, but it's acceleration from 0 to 60 was about ten minutes

Owen · 02-09-2008 4:55pm

Also made it into a Motorbike. The MTT turbine bike had a Rolls Royce aircraft engine, and because the bike could in theory go 250mph+, it didn't have mirrors, but instead, a tft screen, and rear facing camera lest your neck be snapped by the wind forces of turning your neck.

Jay Leno has one, and he melted the front bumper of a car behind him in traffic one day as the bike was idling!

gas turbine engine - no googling

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