You can't survey the history of GM's turbine vehicles without noticing how extroverted their designs are. Because the Firebirds were effectively powered by jet engines, they were designed to look ...

Chrysler had been developing the turbine engine well before anyone believed in it, and that wasn't about to stop. Even as the evaluation cars made the rounds, the company had a fifth generation ...

It was first revealed in 1950. A few years later, Rover dropped in a bigger engine and broke the world speed record (for gas turbine cars) at 152 mph. JET 1 could run on gas, paraffin, or diesel oil.

A fun YouTube video shows a foamcore F-18 built to house an actual jet turbine. The versatile F/A-18 has decades of military history, though this is likely the first one with a tin-foil heat shield.