http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392420,00.asp


Didn't Chrysler try this in the 60's?

 

I'd rather have a chrysler turbine car ... then i could sell it for a bunch of batmobiles o:

the chrysler ones could run on just about anything that was combustible. it's almost sad they never actually followed through beyond one production year

 

they only made a handful of the turbine cars i thought.

 

I want it

 

I have met the guy that built the original batmobile a bunch of times. He worked in the shop next to ours building props for movies and shows.

 

And you can have it!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/_W0QQ...ht_4606wt_1165

 

I came.

 

Yes, they did. A cool concept, but fatally flawed by throttle lag and quite a lot of noise.
Ghia built the bodies for 50 prototypes. They had a reduction gear coupling to the then-current three-speed Torqueflight automatic.
Vmax for the turbine was something like 40K rpm. Four survive today; I think Leno owns one.