The Firebird I had drum brakes, although their design was slightly different from the ... powered by the 130-hp A-831 engine. Chrysler created the Turbine Car from scratch, once again with help from ...

The Chrysler Turbine Car's fuel economy issue was baked into the design because jet engines don't idle well and are infamous ...

But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine ... engine’s intellectual property. This allows them to license the ...

Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...