The Chrysler Turbine Car: Engineering a Revolution | Full Documentary

How the heck do you get the warm and fuzzies over a piece of Detroit iron?

they shoulda made a handful of extra engines when they were together, they coulda banked on them down the road :P

You can laugh scoff as you want gas turbines are more efficient cleaner burning fewer parts more importantly Whittles gas turbine centrifugal engines are still be used never replaced to this day in jet engines on aircraft 😂

Wonder about what mpg those got🤔

And now we get 50 shades of electric SUVs

The Indy 500 banned turbine-powered cars early on; that is when I stopped paying any attention to Indy racing forever. They lost all excuses that they were fostering innovation. Bull. They banned innovation.

The story of reproducing the engine should be a film

So sad to see the demolition of this country.

So now when you see a ufo think of the gap of time between them and now. It's probably us if this was going on in the 50s.

turbine generator running flex fuels and electric drive. lets gooo!

This is technology forget EV they are so boring..❤ The BlueJay team must be the first to drive it again…

Pure Dope! I’d want one just for the sound then add an afterburner for rkicks

As a member of an older demographic I remember seeing these turbine cars at the NY Worlds Fair in the mid 1960s. They were hyped as the "cars of the future" but it was a "false dawn". The same fate awaited GMs EVI which came and went in the 1990s . But the idea of an all electric car was successfully revived in the 21st Century . So it goes...

imho the efficiency of this engine was a threat to big oil

‘All kinds of people were chosen to test drive the cars: rich white families, middle class white families…..and even a few poor white families”

Solving mysteries is always fun. This is the most trivial mystery I have ever seen however…lol

So sad to see what has become of Chrysler today, now owned by Fiat/Stellantis, but back in the day they were a very innovative company,THE Turbine Car is proof of that😊❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏

i was hurt seeing all of thoes wonderful cars being destroyed so much work gone were never gonna have another wonderful car like this again everyone is thinking battery cars are the future but they arent jet powered cars sound much more plausible than battery cars

What a fantastic documentary! Thank you so very much!

Hideously ugly car

I don’t use this word ever, but what a wonderful video.

Just a beautiful boat! On a beautiful day on the lake.

What a brilliant video. And a reminder of some of the incredible stuff done in the 50's and 60's, so even better to see those old fellows coming back in to help

It's really sad I can't see that car .. because I live in middle east been American car enthusiast since I was kid .. turbine engine was fantastic engernneeing

From big money, big innovation and the turbine car, to bailouts and the latest iteration of the PT cruiser 🤣

Might be the best automotive documentary I've seen yet. Incredibly well done, educational and fascinating.

Hip Hop artists would've sang about this car.

Fallout 4

I heard about these, much later - as a historical asterisk. I dated a girl in college that had a Corvair. She wanted to get a "normal" car, my Dad bought it from her, so began a ~20 year love affair with Corvairs. My Dad and I bought, traded back and forth, and sold 5 of them.I Upgraded, eventually to a 1963 Spyder with a turbo. I loved that car. My last one was a convertible '65. Turbo Corvairs were much more simply made than what I'm learning about from this video... but what a car!

Lets also be really real - a bullet nose Studebaker models with this power plant would've been absolutely monumental.

BRAVO !

Asa youngster my buddies and I would go to our local hobby store and low an behold, there it was on the shelf in it's colorful carton. A 1/25 scale Chrysler Turbine car. Johan was the manufacturer in the day. Talk about detail oriented. You needed to be a skilled hobbyist to take this on. My friend and I were lucky enough that the store in Stamford Connecticut had a few in stocks. We set out and purchased 2 and decided to paint them in different colors.
Great documentary Hagerty. Well put together

I was attending LSU in the 1960s when Chrysler came to the campus to show off this car. It looked quite futuristic and it sounded very unusual. I'm sure it was quite expensive as you could buy a car for less than $3,000. I bought a 1966 Pontiac LeMans for roughly $2,700. I saw the the Shelby 427 Cobra at a Ford dealer for roughly $9,500. Way out of what most people could afford. One of the Shelby 427 Cobras probably sell at auction today for a few hundred thousand dollars. Shelby's personal Cobras sold in the last couple of years for $5.94 million!

What a great story. I'm not a big car guy, but this was fascinating.

Don't get it twisted it was greed the reason why they destroyed all those beautiful pieces of machinery

Back when America was still a team❤

A very interesting and informative documentary on not only a very special car but also on people with high levels of skill and passion. I was surprised that I was moved to tears. Aside from this specific car it reminds me of the Valiant Ranger slant engine ute my uncle used to drive along newly formed rough forestry roads in New Zealand on a daily basis. It was a reliable low, fast, tough vehicle. Good on you people for preserving this part of Chrysler and the sixties history.

Greatest fail i've ever see in my life !

J Lenno made a very interesting vid about this car, strictly recomanded !!

“We’ll meet up in a big turbine sky” 😢 that hit my soul

Damn there was me ordering a hydraulic press, some ball bearings and some liquid nitrogen but then it said DO NOT ATTEMPT AT HOME....so i took it to the office and people were not happy

From a retired old man who spent his life as an auto tech and grew up during the 60's, I gotta say well done on the video folks! I've seen and read pieces about the cars over the years but I never gained so much knowledge in one setting as I just did watching this. Very cool! Very enjoyable video, Thank You!

These people are lunatics. NO-ITS LOOKS LIKE CRAP
It wont PULL ANYTHING
It has NO RANGE
There IS NO GRID
Electric power prices are skyrocketing
There are NO CHARGERS-lines are hours long
They re BLOWING UP
This a STUPID test and you all PASSED

Ugh ❤

'63-'64 I must have been about 16 then. Whalley Avenue was 'automobile row' then. I always remembered it fondly. And I heard it too.

It was on Whalley Avenue in New Haven Connecticut outside my dad's auto glass business driving by!

I saw one of these drive by when I was a kid.