The engine is the lifeblood of a car. It converts fuel, usually gasoline, into physical motion that turns the wheels and makes the vehicles go. Over the years, as technology advanced, so too did ...

Like the other cars in his collection, Jay Leno's Chrysler Turbine Car saw regular use— until its engine failed. So Leno sent it to Williams International, the Michigan-based company founded by one of ...

Built by Vince Granatelli, son of Indy 500 guru Andy Granatelli, this curious Corvette came into being by cramming a Pratt & Whitney ST6N-74 gas turbine engine into the donor car's lengthy front end.

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 ...

Not only did someone shove a Cold War-era Rolls-Royce Viper turbojet engine in the back of this one, but its four-cylinder ICE powertrain is still there.

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Its level of efficiency exceeds the theoretical limit of piston engines ... The Tesla Turbine has various uses, like powering blowers, pumps, and compressors or running cars and airplanes.

Swapping Cosworth DFV for Pratt & Whitney, the turbine-powered Lotus Type 56B is one of the most radical F1 cars of all time ...

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way. The car started as a four-wheel drive electric race car ...

So this makes for better combustion and a more powerful engine. Turbochargers are driven by the car's exhaust gases. These gases wind a turbine connected to an impeller that begins to draw in air.