Jay Leno owned a Chrysler Turbine Car back in the early 2000s, but he was soon going to discover really bad news under the hood. So he called people who knew people, and roughly 200 experts teamed up ...

There is a specific kind of automotive heartbreak that comes from watching something genuinely brilliant get strangled before it can breathe. Not because the engineering failed, and not because the ...

Explore the reasons why turbine engines, despite their potential, have never been successfully implemented in mass-produced ...

Pontiac — The Woodward Dream Cruise is where people from all over North America bring their unique automobiles: classic milk trucks, 1,500-horspower dragsters, Batmobiles. This year, Jay Leno brought ...

NMAH copy 39088015217177 Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. From the Publisher: In 1964, Chrysler gave the world a glimpse of the future. They built a fleet of turbine cars-automobiles with ...

Joe Buczek is manager of digital content and promotion at CBS Detroit. He previously worked at WWTV, the Grand Traverse Insider, the Leader and the Kalkaskian, the Oakland Press and the Morning Sun. A ...

On and off over the years, Detroit’s engineers have cranked up substitutes for the old piston engine, but nothing much has come of them. In Manhattan last week, Chrysler Corp., which lately has been ...

Auto engineers who dream of finding a replacement for the complicated, churning piston engine have long looked wistfully at the gas-turbine engine that introduced the jet age. The turbine—with its ...