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2006 GM EcoJet: Jay Leno’s 650-HP Biodiesel-Powered Turbine Supercar
The 2006 GM EcoJet is one of the most unusual concept cars General Motors has ever built. Developed with Jay Leno and unveiled at the 2006 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the EcoJet combined the proportions of an exotic mid-engine supercar with technology more closely associated with aircraft. Instead of a conventional gasoline V8, the GM EcoJet used a Honeywell LT101 gas turbine engine. The turbine produced approximately 650 horsepower and 600 Nm (about 443 lb-ft) of torque, while t


The $50 Bet That Created the American Road Trip
Today, a cross-country road trip can be planned in minutes. In 1903, there were no Interstate highways, no gas stations, virtually no useful road maps for the West, and only about 150 miles of paved road in the entire United States—all of it inside cities. Most roads were dirt tracks built for horses and wagons. Many Americans still considered the automobile an expensive novelty that might never become practical transportation. Then Horatio Nelson Jackson put $50 on the table


2026 Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage by Niels van Roij Design: One-Off V12 Coachbuilt GT
The 2026 Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage by Niels van Roij Design is a one-off coachbuilt grand tourer inspired by the famous 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Shooting Brake. Rather than creating a direct replica, the Dutch design studio reinterpreted the original car with new aluminum bodywork, a distinctive shooting brake roof and a handcrafted interior. More than 15,000 hours went into the project. Only the doors remain from the donor Ferrari 599 GTB, while virtually every other exte
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