The Chrysler Turboflight, '...runs on any liquid fuel': really ! Another engine prevented from being developed by vested interests ? Pasted and edited from another website, below:- '...Chrysler first came up with a turbine-engined car in 1954 by putting a turboshaft unit into a standard Plymouth road car...The TurboFlite concept was invented by Virgil Exner, Chrysler’s head of design. It was styled under his ‘Forward Look’ style, using the latest aerodynamic knowhow and borrowing heavily from the world of aviation with fins galore. It was meant to be futuristic, but ironically this would be one of Exner’s final designs for the company, which defaulted to a more conservative design afterward. The TurboFlite was built for Chrysler by Ghia in Turin, and was intended to push the boundaries as befits a turbine-powered automobile... a turbine is better than a piston engine because there are fewer moving parts to go wrong. However, they are much less flexible than traditional piston engines, (there was a 1.5sec pause between pressing the accelerator and anything happening), and there was a lot of heat to deal with...the TurboFlite’s roof.. automatically raised when you opened either of the doors, lifting the windscreen and side windows with it. Conventional doors ensured access to the rear seats...The design meant normal windows couldn’t be used, but Chrysler did mount the side ones on roof hinges to get a bit of air in the cabin. And... a year after the TurboFlite’s debut, space-age cartoon sitcom The Jetsons aired on American TV for the first time... coincidence? ...the interior of the car - or cockpit, if you will - sports a relentless aircraft theme, with aluminium-accented seats, huge throttle and brake pedals (the designers thought it would be safer if the driver had to rest their foot on the brake, it would make them more responsive) and an instrument panel with a series of plane-style dials. As well as the speedo there was a turbine inlet temperature gauge on the dash..the front end of the TurboFlite was slimmed down to cut drag, to the extent that outer headlights tucked in underneath the outboard wings when not needed...the rear wing wasn’t merely a styling flourish, it actually served a functional purpose on the TurboFlite - not adding downforce, but rather it flipped up and acted as a crude, early form of airbrake when the driver used the second pedal; no engine braking from a turbine, you see…we should all be grateful for the massive rear wing - not only did it inspire later muscle cars, but Chrysler’s efforts making the airbrake work on the TurboFlite have led to cars like the Bugatti Veyron and McLaren P1, which wouldn’t have been anywhere near as effective without their aero-powered stoppers. ..Chrysler launched a far more ordinary-looking car with a fourth-generation version of its turbine engine in 1963. Members of the public were given 50 of the cars to test and racked up over a million miles of testing. Chrysler was genuinely looking at putting the engine technology into series production before the Seventies oil crisis finally killed it...Fiat and General Motors also played around with the idea of a turbine-powered car, but these never got past the concept stage. Even Rover had a play with turbine power as early as 1950, and even entered an experimental car to Le Mans...
The turbine was inefficient even compared to the larger V8s of the 60s. It also required an extensive rebuild or replace of the main drive unit after 1100 hours, or every six months in average commuter usage. Chrysler did not fully end turbine development until 1980. It never got much belter.
@@stanwbaker Very interesting. Thanks very much. I wonder how efficient the technology could have been made to be, with research and development, as Mazda has done, with the rotay engine recently, albeit by using it in a way it was never intended ?.
Interesting to see that both Ford and Lotus showed left hand drive versions. I guess they were targeting export sales.
Great days, great cars pity the MkX Jag had reliability issues.
Pathe’s question in the final seconds of the clip is moot after pushing mass car ownership “but where are we all going to park?”
le proporzioni e lo stile delle Bristol, dalla 404 in avanti, sono stati condizionati dall'inserimento della ruota di scorta nel parafango anteriore
The Chrysler Turboflight, '...runs on any liquid fuel': really ! Another engine prevented from being developed by vested interests ?
Pasted and edited from another website, below:-
'...Chrysler first came up with a turbine-engined car in 1954 by putting a turboshaft unit into a standard Plymouth road car...The TurboFlite concept was invented by Virgil Exner, Chrysler’s head of design. It was styled under his ‘Forward Look’ style, using the latest aerodynamic knowhow and borrowing heavily from the world of aviation with fins galore. It was meant to be futuristic, but ironically this would be one of Exner’s final designs for the company, which defaulted to a more conservative design afterward. The TurboFlite was built for Chrysler by Ghia in Turin, and was intended to push the boundaries as befits a turbine-powered automobile... a turbine is better than a piston engine because there are fewer moving parts to go wrong. However, they are much less flexible than traditional piston engines, (there was a 1.5sec pause between pressing the accelerator and anything happening), and there was a lot of heat to deal with...the TurboFlite’s roof.. automatically raised when you opened either of the doors, lifting the windscreen and side windows with it. Conventional doors ensured access to the rear seats...The design meant normal windows couldn’t be used, but Chrysler did mount the side ones on roof hinges to get a bit of air in the cabin. And... a year after the TurboFlite’s debut, space-age cartoon sitcom The Jetsons aired on American TV for the first time... coincidence? ...the interior of the car - or cockpit, if you will - sports a relentless aircraft theme, with aluminium-accented seats, huge throttle and brake pedals (the designers thought it would be safer if the driver had to rest their foot on the brake, it would make them more responsive) and an instrument panel with a series of plane-style dials. As well as the speedo there was a turbine inlet temperature gauge on the dash..the front end of the TurboFlite was slimmed down to cut drag, to the extent that outer headlights tucked in underneath the outboard wings when not needed...the rear wing wasn’t merely a styling flourish, it actually served a functional purpose on the TurboFlite - not adding downforce, but rather it flipped up and acted as a crude, early form of airbrake when the driver used the second pedal; no engine braking from a turbine, you see…we should all be grateful for the massive rear wing - not only did it inspire later muscle cars, but Chrysler’s efforts making the airbrake work on the TurboFlite have led to cars like the Bugatti Veyron and McLaren P1, which wouldn’t have been anywhere near as effective without their aero-powered stoppers. ..Chrysler launched a far more ordinary-looking car with a fourth-generation version of its turbine engine in 1963. Members of the public were given 50 of the cars to test and racked up over a million miles of testing. Chrysler was genuinely looking at putting the engine technology into series production before the Seventies oil crisis finally killed it...Fiat and General Motors also played around with the idea of a turbine-powered car, but these never got past the concept stage. Even Rover had a play with turbine power as early as 1950, and even entered an experimental car to Le Mans...
The turbine was inefficient even compared to the larger V8s of the 60s. It also required an extensive rebuild or replace of the main drive unit after 1100 hours, or every six months in average commuter usage.
Chrysler did not fully end turbine development until 1980. It never got much belter.
@@stanwbaker Very interesting. Thanks very much.
I wonder how efficient the technology could have been made to be, with research and development, as Mazda has done, with the rotay engine recently, albeit by using it in a way it was never intended ?.