Really strange to see the brand new GM factories in Detroit shown in the video which are all but collapsing now into rusting heaps of brick and rusted steel
Well your comment was 3years the Cars future is here now no need to wait The future now the testa and whatever New out there electric cars Ill prefer the classic cars it better
Many of the advances in this car ended up in production years later: AC alternators, Hydraulic brake boosters, Disc brakes, Pneumatic assisted suspension, Independent rear suspension with CV axles.
French Citroen cars are famous for hydraulics, back in the day even for power windows, brakes, and gear changes, and of course the hydropneumatic suspension, which even alowed to increase ground clearance. Latter they kept until the C6 luxury car, made until 2012. These times are gone, no energy to waste on hydraulics today...
Don't forget the Mercedes SEL 600 Pullman. While it had air suspension, it used hydraulics to power everything else. I really appreciate the videos King Rose Archives produces.
0:44 wouldn’t want to be behind that when the light goes green ! 9:20 imagine a pedestrian hit by that front end ! 10:00 batteries to power, turbines to speed, let’s go Batman, Okay Robin, seat belts on?
Think a small turbine may be usable as a range extender in an EV, it could run at it's optimum power / speed since it's just charging a battery and not connected to a transmission or drivetrain that would require changes in speed. Drive your EV to work and back every day charge it like normal, take it for a long trip or if charging isn't available a light modern turbine could add range back to the batteries. They also can run on many fuels, not just gas. But I expect there may be a noise problem running a turbine engine.
OH, AND THEN THERE'S THE NOISE FROM THAT JET POWERED CAR!!! Just imagine rolling home at 11pm from a sock hop and stop at the drive in for a soda and burger. Man oh man would the neighbours just love your new jet powered car at that hour.
Tell your wife it's just as quiet as a B-52 on takeoff, she'll love it. I'm surprised they didn't try to make one powered by a nuclear reactor. That would have been fun especially in a collision!
The Union Pacific Railroad had much success running Turbine Locomotives for nearly 20 years. Shame that fuel costs and noise complaints relegated them to history.
I went to the Henry Ford estate and tuck the tour . In the garage they had a model T , they also had a battery powered model T from back then . We could be a 100 years ahead, but the big oil companies stopped progress in the name of greed $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Look at any movie of a highway or busy city back in the 50s (or any other time), most cars always looked alike. We just forget it because there aren’t as many older cars on the road and they DO look different from newer ones.
A lot of people making fun of the turbine engine but the Army's M1 tank uses a turbine engine. The engine runs a constant RPM and uses the transmission to control speed.
If a car was going to have all those gauges, it would never work out. Drivers just couldn't handled something that looks like the cockpit of a jet aircraft. Then there are questions about fuel economy. Jet airplanes use a lot of fuel. Having a jet engine for stop-and-go traffic has got to be worse. Then there are pedestrians who might be walking behind such a car. Blowing people down might be a feature some would like, but I don't know.
gas turbine + generator + batteries+electric motors. burn any fuel you want, and turbine runs at top efficiency to charge the batteries. Ultimate plug-in hybrid. you really only need maybe 30hp turbine power, and let the EV system handle the rest with big big batteries and 500hp electric drive.
@@shmuck66 I understand the efficient loss from transmitting power from the engine to the generator but you have to some way of making usable torque, of course you have cvts and variable fluid torque converters but having a little engine charge enough to go down the road and provide extra power to the batteries for passing and acceleration
So obviously they knew back then how expensive a turbine engine is to build , why did they try this and waste a lot of money? They actually use Turbine powered Semi trucks in Australia , to drive long distances over the continent.
Nothing more far from the reality (our actual reality 2017). The frontal wheels without their protection..? PFFFT! The bus shape looks very more similar to an actual bus, big wheels, windowns, a engine, a door entrance, 2 lamps, bumpers, etc.
Real shame we never went down the gas turbine road for road transport. Ok they had problems but really when you look at their construction and small amounts of parts and variety of fuel that can be used they would have been a good alternative to internal combustion engines.
How could the Americans land on the moon when just over ten years earlier they actually thought jet powered cars would be a good idea? It just boggles the mind that something so wasteful as a jet engine of the time could be seen as a method to transport people at such SLOW speeds.
The STP-Paxton turbo car proved at the 1967 Indy 500 that a turbine-powered car could be very effective on a race track. However, driving around a 2 1/2 mile oval at nearly constant, high speed was the perfect job for a turbine. Actually driving on the street was beyond its capabilities. Turbines hate to change speed. Asking them to power a car that actually stops and goes is practically out of the range of possibility. Plus, they waste tremendous amounts fuel, even with heat recovery systems. The turbo Firebirds were nothing more than a styling exercise.
The alternating current generator the Chrysler invention. And disc brakes just like Chrysler first put on one of their cars in 1948. You sure this is a General Motors video???. Goes by 1956 Chrysler already had gas turbine cars driving around on the roads. Aerospace and Automobiles tried to work with pneudraulic suspension systems and Power Systems for about a decade or so before they finally decided that mixing oil and air doesn't work very well. I don't know why they thought that oil and are mixed but okay? A planetary gear and hydraulic transmission, wow another Chrysler development. So far the only thing I haven't seen the news yet is the electronic port injection that Chrysler invented and had on cars in 1956.
Chrysler didn't start using alternators until 1959-1960. The first alternators were used on some military vehicles during WW2. Thety had the separate rectifier module like the Firebird in the video. Not sure but I believe the Leece-Neville company developed them.
Electronic port injection by Chrysler in 1956??? Show me....I CAN show YOU mechanical port fuel injection on a 1957 Chevy!! Electronic?? I don't think so!! Half the "electronics" required to run it would not have fit in the trunk in 1956!!
@@Sashazur There was never hope for non-whites, except the hope that whites would colonize and bring them a higher standard of living. Although, some are happy being who they are, which is the best anyone can hope for.
I never understood this thing with American car designers back then to make cars resemble jet planes. Granted some have looks that can be labeled classic today but it's just not appealing to me.
I believe the design chief was Harley Earl who was inspired by jet aircraft. Even production cars of that era. Remember tail fins and aggressive bumpers?
Imagine a World full o those noisy and gas guzzling cars? And what about when your pets like the kitten or your chihuahua got swallowed and charbroiled by the turbines?
@@andyharman3022 Alternators were first introduced as standard equipment on a production car by the Chrysler Corporation on the Valiant in 1960, years before GM.
