7 Extremely Cool Cars That Powered by Aircraft Engines

Talking about cool cars, coolest car ever or coolest car in the world, most of us always think of supercars, hypercar or expensive cars but there are many other cool cars that you might not know. Cool cars are powered by aircraft engines that known as: jet engine car, jet powered car, gas turbine car, or rocket car maybe cool vehicles that you are looking for. Through the years, there are a lot extremely cool cars were powered by jet engine, gas turbine, radical or rocket engine have been built by auto companies, professional car builders, machinist or hand-build by car enthusiasts. Each of these aircraft engine cars look like as an artwork that took a lot of time, money and passion of car builders. Today, we are showing you top 7 coolest cars in the world that powered by aircraft engines, these 7 jet engine cars, gas turbine cars, jet powered cars are very special, one-off, ultra-rare and unique! So if you are the fans of aircraft engine cars, check out these 7 amazing works with the list below:
00:12 1989 batmobile turbine
02:00 1968 Howmet TX - a Gas Turbine-powered racer
03:42 Jay Leno's EcoJet
05:16 "The Beast", a creation by John Dodd with 27-litre V12 WWII Rolls-Royce Merlin airplane engine (late '70s)
06:55 1955 Ghia Streamline X Coupé
08:25 1939 Plymouth Air Radial Truck
10:18 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car
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[@brucegarrett7232]

The bobbing information is irritating and not enough time to read. Real bummer.

[@Legalmachinist]

In addition to the palsy camera work. Great content incredibly poorly executed. Indeed a shame.

[@GBM7718]

👍❤️top

[@petegregory517]

Remember reading about Gilda and the Turbine in my brothers car mags from the ‘50’s. Had to sneak em because he didn’t want me in his stuff.

[@keithjohnston5936]

Slow down the playback speed, but that doesn’t fix the wobble.

[@tedoychorizo6434]

🤣😂🤣

[@minnesotatomcat]

I don’t care what anyone says, that turbine powered batmobile is badass! I’d daily drive that thing 👍

[@CoolCarTv]

Yes, that's right. Awesome!

[@andyman8630]

instead of 12 miles to the gallon, you'd get 12 gallons to the mile

[@patkelley4071]

The problem with the radial engine truck is the cooling, as there's not enough airflow to keep it running without overheating and seizing for more than a couple of minutes. The fix was to install an oil cooling system that allowed the truck to make the five minutes or so needed to perform at big truck shows, and that was developed and installed by Radial Engines in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

[@thecman26]

Lets not forget that several cylinders are upside down. So oil will fill the combustion chamber. If you don't empty it out you can hydrolock those cylinders and do some major damage to the connecting rods and such! There's a reason radial engines went away quickly!

[@patkelley4071]

@@thecman26 anyone who uses radials should know to crank the engine over before engaging the ignition. When I was in college I watched a doctor who had just bought an old Cessna 195 (beautiful plane) blow out the lower cylinders when he forgot the rule.

[@lucianene7741]

@@thecman26 Radials did not go away so quickly, they were pretty common in the 1960's and some are still used today. The reason they lost their dominant market position after WW2 is two-fold. First, the advent of gas turbine engines with much better power/weight ratio, scalability, reliability and streamlining, burning a cheaper fuel, left radials with no chance in the high power market sector. And second, the introduction of flat-4,6 and 8 engines which were simpler, more streamlined and equally well suited for air cooling eliminated the need for radials in the low-power general aviation market.

[@claiborneeastjr4129]

I'm constantly amazed at the creative, artistic, and mechanical engineering skills of people who design, create, and build machines such as these. Just amazing skills. Very impressive.

[@stranraerwal]

the main thing seems to be the noise these silly "artistic" creations are making.

[@wayneandrus307]

There are some very talented, brilliant, artistic and down right INSANE people in this world.

[@CoolCarTv]

Yeah yeah yeah COOL 😎

[@californiadreaming9216]

Wayne Andrus yes sir. And we love them dearly LOL.😂

[@michaelfink64]

Another example of a jet powered car is the Jaguar C-X75 prototype which had two small gas turbines which charged a battery that fed four electric motors.

[@lucianene7741]

A car powered by a blowtorch-hot jet engine driving past all those bales of hay is comforting and reassuring.

[@SvenTviking]

The Beast did not have a Merlin engine, it had a motor derived from the Merlin, a Meteor tank engine, built by Rover cars. Early ones used Merlin crankcases taken from crashed aircraft, with visible cosmetic damage. The Merlin is single overhead camshaft, bevel driven with 4 valves per cylinder.

[@fatherguidosarduchi5204]

My buddy and I were riding our motorcycles to Vegas one day ( Phoenix to Vegas) and I believe it was a Chrysler that was powered by a gas turbine engine blew by us. We came upon it 15 miles ahead of us. The engine was scattered all over the road and they had a support truck cleaning up the mess on the highway. We tried to talk to them, but they declined to say anything about the car. Anyway thought that was interesting.

[@rickprusak9326]

With automobile talent like this, what took us soo long to get a car on the moon? And why don't we have another car on Mars or racing around the rings of Saturn?

[@yiannishayabusaofficial]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW ! ! ! ! ! ! AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! ! AMAZING ! ! ! ! ! ! FANTASTIC ! ! ! ! ! ! TOP ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[@merlin5476]

Would have been cool to see" The Brutus" as featured on top gear.

[@insanleo1971]

The Cessna pick up is the best, the other cars were interesting

[@tomcoryell]

I see cooling system nightmares.

[@fallspring1033]

Dear Santa, I've been SUPER good this year!! All I want is that Batmobile.

[@magnetmannenbannanen]

the batmobile with a jet? I NEED!

[@CoolCarTv]

Oh Yeah 🔥🔥🔥

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

From the B pilars back, Leno's car is sporting styling from a 1968 Biuck Rivera Boattail.

[@frankenfoamy]

Remember Preston Tucker's car was powered by a piston helicopter engine

[@heliooss8104]

It's an old set of videos, but it's interesting to watch special cars and never show how they drive on the road and how they accelerate! Drive on the spot so slowly and carefully! When I drove an old refurbished Cadillac, I still enjoyed driving and accelerating and the comfort of the car and its power, especially in urban traffic, where it is often necessary to speed up from behind a traffic light so that other cars can also pass through the green light and no congestion. would occur in Europe's small towns, at intersections! The car is still for driving and a powerful car to enjoy driving, albeit a rare one!

[@vernwallen4246]

The turbine even at low rev's sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner.😜😜😜

[@cameronp9394]

PLEASE....AIRCRAFTS....is not a word

[@christophercraig289]

Someone please rescue the Merlin out of that monstrosity and get it back in a Mustang or Spitfire where it belongs.

[@Quintanaroo2117]

FYI, there was also a turbine powered Indy car. STP-Paxton Turbocar, 1967.

[@greybone777]

Mario Andretti was supposed to be the driver.STP was the major sponsor. The rules commission kept reducing the size of the intakes until it was no longer competitive. Like the Plymouth super bee and Daytona charger it just got away from everyone and had to be stopped. Both signaling the end of real competition in racing.

[@Brando_Magnifico]

I love the fact that when Jay leno is leaving, you can hear just a regular ol airplane in the sky and this beast is on 4 tires! 😃

[@chrisnewman7281]

Some of these cars can literally blow away the competition

[@DJ-ic6mu]

Insanely smooth footage

[@dewaynemiguel3349]

I remember in the 70s a freightliner conventional powered by a P51 Mustang enguine,but they had alot of problems keeping it running right.and GMC had turbin enguine experimental cabovers

[@djm9276]

That batmobile is hokey !

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

I miss the Rover-BRM turbine car which ran at Le Mans in '63, '64 and '65.

[@paulbusch7905]

All we need now is a turbine-powered Knight Rider car now.

[@clearcreek69]

YES

[@Ydnar6929]

I remember seeing the Chrysler Turbine car at of all places a Chevrolet dealer. Central Chevrolet in Atlanta Ga. I was 16 and already a gearhead.

[@ant-1382]

Now that was a slice of pure cool!!!

[@skydive7054]

3:30 probably gave the GT40 a run for its money.

[@hasanjohani3475]

God bless the gearbox inventor.

[@rondye9398]

Saw a old Dodge Power Wagon (WW2) up in Oregon with a big radial in front. Impressive!

[@chanel2076]

สุดเจ๋ง

[@amyjojinkerson5668]

it must be nice to throw around that kind of money and not worry about it

[@MaxSpencer2000]

Every video this guy puts out is very entertaining.

[@Андрей-ч8р9э]

Вот это полет мысли вот это умные конструкторы инженеры восхищаюсь вашими автомобилями они все один эксклюзивнее другого....

[@MrTG-vf9cu]

Ростовская бэха круче

[@greybone777]

The 70s were funnn. I remember art affrons green monster

[@stupitdog9686]

PLEASE buy the camera operato a steady cam mount!!

[@shehinmuchati6424]

Beautiful machines 🤩

[@CoolCarTv]

Nice, hope you enjoyed, please share 🙏. Thank you!

[@deandee8082]

the camera man on that merlin wagon, LORD

[@harmonygritz2839]

“Ain’t Nuthin but an E thing baby”

[@rudiwot9687]

Bis das batmobil anfährt ,ist die Ampel wieder rot

[@hingedmuch]

John Dodd's Merlin Beast, amazing. "John how much torque your car have?" John: "Yes".

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

Pretty sure technically it would be a Meteor engine if it doesn't have the Superchargers. That's the one that would have been in the Cromwell and Churchill tanks. Still a beast of an engine though.

[@tyrssen1]

I saw the Chrysler turbine car rolling around Livonia, Michigan back when it was being tested!

[@joecampbell971]

Chrysler should have switched to making vacuum cleaners.

[@gelsonluizraolinocoelho1570]

Simplesmente 💯 sacional valeuuuuuuuu

[@connieschmitt714]

Great video maybe slow down writing

[@brettrogers7959]

Leno's car looks like a cross between a Cadi and Riviera, they should make this car with a LS motor

[@CoolCarTv]

Perhaps a good idea 👍

[@davybass]

... and the Howmet TX has rear lights from a 1960's Ford Cortina/Lola Mk.6/Ferrari GTO/TVR Vixen.

[@GarySmith-up1un]

Came here for the Radial Engine.

[@CoolCarTv]

Ok

[@wakajundouga]

まさかの星型エンジンを積んだクルマがあるとは💧

[@Dannysoutherner]

I love the sound of those jets but I doubt you could get away with that in a suburb neighbourhood. The high pitched screech would be as bad as open headers.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

if it fits its gold

[@redsorgum]

Jay Leno and the French Fry car……👏👏🤣🍟

[@andreapicci8410]

*They were afraid that cars wouldn't have moved without aircraft engines????* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dereksmith6126]

Interesting video. It might have just been me, but the text wasn't on screen long enough to read it all!

[@CoolCarTv]

Thank you for your suggestion 👍

[@Dannysoutherner]

I paused it as needed.

[@patrickwoo6067]

Batmobile really legend...!!!!

[@MadMike1978racing]

That Batmobile would likely be more awesome with an F-15 jet engine

[@CoolCarTv]

COOL 😎

[@darreno1450]

That bat mobile looks like it has a pt6 in it.

[@squeekieballs5052]

Joker escapes while you look amazing sitting there waiting for the Batmobile's turbine to spool up.

[@laman8914]

i like the Jay Leno bio-jet: so , while you are driving you can fry and egg.

[@CoolCarTv]

😎😎😎

[@macwilliambasilio4128]

The plymouth is very cool.

[@concrete981]

ALL DUDS.

[@wmden1]

The Merlin had to have Lake plugs in the exhaust pipes. Chrysler should have kept the basic body design of its production turbine powered car. It was sharp as a tack, and had those headlights we still love.

[@leandrolopesvalverde]

O som de um motor acionando é muito bom...

[@GBM7718]

Amazing👍👍👍👍❤️

[@CoolCarTv]

Thanks and please share 🙏

[@GBM7718]

@@CoolCarTv ok 🙏

[@GBM7718]

Ok please corek my woork shop

[@TheHortond]

I've seen the Radial engine truck in person. They keep it at their man cave at the junk yard along with other projects. I don't think its open to the public. But they do have a radial engine sitting in the lobby that all visitors can see.

[@1suoiraciv954]

Cool cars but no James Bond car here-NO EJECTION SAT

[@MadMike1978racing]

That EcoJet looks like a Cadillac Cien/Koenigsegg Agera Hybrid

[@markfortin421]

Can you imagine Leno's Corvette melting the Kia sitting behind it at a traffic light ? 😮

[@Costangia]

I'd hate to be the gopher that gets sucked in to that air intake

[@GSimpsonOAM]

There is also the Lotus 56 Indy 500/ F1 turbine car

[@ericbraun4652]

Aircraft engines are an incredibly poor choice for cars, especially the turbines. The use profile is completely different with the aircraft engines designed to put out 75% of rate power for virtually 100% duty cycle at a constant rpm and with as close to 100% reliability as possible. They were not designed to put around at 5 to 10% rated power output at vastly varying speeds. Use an aircraft engine if you wish to cruise at 175mph.

[@wageslave387]

What happens if you run it at varying, lower loads like in a car though? Does it damage the engine?

[@177SCmaro]

@@wageslave387 Probably shortens the service life and is really inefficient.

[@damagar8]

The M1A1 Abrams MBT runs on a turbine.

[@ericbraun4652]

@@damagar8 A tank is not a car. It's a different duty cycle. A tank uses much more of its available power for more time than a car.

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

@@177SCmaro Depends if it's been de-stressed like the used to do with the Late SWW tanks. It didn't have the stress requirements of High altitude so the Meteor was quite a reliable engine but still had loads of power. If they were using them in full Air trim then yes they would be issues with the more erratic power usage in a car. The early Shermans used Aero Radials too. It had a good power to weight ratio but was prone to overheating when stationary due to lack of airflow through the engine.

[@davidgwin4540]

I know turbine powered cars are rare, but just once I'd like to see one do afew doughnuts! Something iv never seen before!

[@jamesboaz4787]

@ 8:30 yep its sitting right in the main entrance area you can go check it out. It's a little east of Santa Fe you can't really see the from the road.

[@jamescherney5874]

Wish you had made the information readable.

[@raypurchase801]

The kind of thing which Peter Griffin would drive into Cleveland's house, after he's run out of Petercopters and Hindenpeters.

[@doarmanmartinez5152]

The bat mobile is real, my dad has one! Said the coolest kid ever.

[@CoolCarTv]

Nice!

[@adamw4245]

This video reminds me of the GTA five online loading screen can’t read nothing

[@JoeZelensky]

To bad you didnt have the turbine S-10 in this.

[@magicyeti5630]

Thumbnail is located in Denver Colorado ....

[@willg0opl]

Jay Leno's car is cool, but the turbine runs on biodiesel, not cooking oil. The long chain molecules are cracked in the process of making the biodiesel, and methyl groups added on the chain ends. What results is a long way from cooking oil.

[@jodyreeder4820]

Great, if the man with the plan batmobile driver was dressed as batman, an uncanny combo, don't know what to think of the Lino mobile.

[@ShaunHensley]

I think I saw that radial truck in Calistoga CA

[@eliaskoelho]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@wheelie642]

7:55 imagine getting that steering column through your chest in an accident. 🤭

[@Rc.pipesmoker]

Got to be honest when all said and done ! I was expecting such greatness but was very much let down by the junk that i just watched.

[@garyevans5335]

You missed one of the first aero engined cars, Babs.

[@montedaestrada3563]

The chassis for the John Dodd car was built 200 yards away from where I lived. I could seethe factory from my bedroom. What you show is its Mk2 body. Interestingly where the chassis was built is only a 5 minute walk from Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham base.

[@christopherdean1326]

It has now been sold, rebuilt with the original Rolls Royce grille, and repainted in a better colour. Still looks fantastic.

[@japudjuha]

Fantastically interesting video, but please whoever is doing the information boxes that pop up, PLEASE leave them up long enough to read the information, they simply aren’t on screen for long enough.

[@CoolCarTv]

Nice, thanks for your suggestion🙏

[@renelaizer6518]

Hold my beer while I turn up my jet...

[@CoolCarTv]

Oh yeah, drink beer and listen to jet engine sound.

[@patrickbodine1300]

You won't find these in a Walmart parking lot!

[@carlospescador6050]

Damnn... As pessoas que que filmam parecem sofrer do "Mal de Parkinson" 😕

[@iannicholls2798]

Great video but, where is the Railton Special? How can you have a video of cars with aircraft engines without the fastest car in the world?

[@waltermiller249]

Words are to small and go by to fast to watch the video. Pausing gets old

[@CoolCarTv]

Nice, thanks for suggestion!

[@eutimiochavez415]

That’s why we can’t hear those aircraft engines ?

[@Deimoosx]

Literally fallout 4 cars

[@gearheadgregwi]

The Batmobile is one car you DON'T tailgate!!!