Turbines, rotaries, and the little engine that might
IN THE ALMOST 70 years since Chrysler first developed a functional gas turbine test mule, the technology that dominates the world’s skies has remained virtually untapped by road cars.
The Americans (and their Italian design counterparts) were optimistic about the potential of turbine cars in the ’50s, but the project was abandoned for good reason with just 55 cars produced. Those reasons were to do with the first five iterations of
