The jet engine was developed independently in England and Germany starting before WW2. Frank Whittle (English) patented the jet engine in 1930 and is technically the inventor of the gas turbine.
Perhaps worth checking up a little on the history of the jet engine... Whilst turbines go back as far as 1790, the first jet engine is usually attributed to Frank Whittle in the UK, although the Germans were slightly faster at getting a working et engine into the air. Whittle's patent was granted in 1932, the German developer Von Ohain later admitted that his work and patent (1935) on jet engines was helped by Whittle's patent... If you look at aviation, jet aircraft have a higher maintenance cost than piston aircraft...
@peterchandler8505 - @3:03 They give us a brief blurb about turbine powered cars, mentioning the Chrysler turbine car, but nothing at all about the car on screen. I don't think this weird green car even exists. It doesn't show up on a google image search except for this video.
Per horsepower developed, turbine engines have lower maintenance due to the lack of mechanical contact. That's why commercial aircraft are jets. However their fuel consumption is much worse than well designed piston engines and drops badly below about 400BHP due to clearances. This is why there's a changeover between piston and turbine for aircraft at around 400BHP, and why warships have Diesels for cruising and turbines for war speed.
All pretty cool cars. So glad you mentioned the 56 Buick Centurian. Had the pleasure of seeing it at the Sloan museum in Flint Michigan. Another cool one was the 1985 Wildcat, awesome looking for it's time.
Also the car taxation rates were the same as a motorcycle. Having driven one, they were pretty OK little machines, although probably unsuited for longer haul journeys. Having said that, our Reliant - owning neighbours in Portsmouth used to take the family to Scotland every summer, and they all seemed to have a very OK time.
I can't believe the creativity behind these cars! The designs are so unique and some are just outright bizarre. My favorite has to be the car that looks like a spaceship!
I have a Jones for weird cars this video succeeds in satisfying that obsession! I especially love the Art Deco inspired Designs and those from the 50s!Thanks for posting
I would have added the Dodge Prowler, the original VW Beetle (just because it was so different to anything else at the time), and the Merc AVTR Vision Concept Loved the video
I'm enjoying the video because it brings together a lot of clips of some very exotic and cool cars, but as others have said, the research is off a lot of the time, as is the editing. For example the narrator just mentioned Lamborghini and the video showed a photo of someone who is very obviously Enzo Ferrari.
FYI, Rover (UK) built a concept turbine car in 1951. England also invented the jet engine, and the Harrier plane AND the first supersonic passenger jet, Concord, in1969, and the World Wide Web through Tim Berners-Lee! But as a nation we couldn't sell a life-vest to a drowning man ... Thank goodness for our subsidiary Country, the USA ,to take on the retail side of things. Please could you pay us a Royalty ;-)
No Bond Bug? Like the Reliant Robin it was a three wheeler (so could be driven on a motorbike licence) and looked like a wedge of cheese. It did have an alarming tendency to wheelie and a popular myth was that it could end up sat on its back.
First time I saw the Ferrari Rainbow I swear I thought it was just a Fiero or MR2 with a slight body job. I guess it was the other way around and Pontiac and Toyota designed their mid-engine cars after the Rainbow.
@@amcconnell6730 THANK YOU SIR!!! Everyone goes on about the Germans inventing the jet engine,obviously theyre not as clued up as they claim to be!!Sir Frank Whittle ws the first to design build and run the Original Jet Turbine,Shouldve been Knighted for his work,
@@michaejshannonshaw9852 The first jet plane which could fly and was ready for combat was German. Period. If your idea would be right the first telephone and the first computer would be German.
@@anonymusum The idea of the jet engine was not new, but the technical problems involved could not begin to be solved until the 1930s. Frank Whittle, an English inventor and RAF officer, began development of a viable jet engine in 1928,[1] and Hans von Ohain in Germany began work independently in the early 1930s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft#:~:text=Frank%20Whittle%2C%20an%20English%20inventor,aircraft%2C%20made%20its%20first%20flight.
The noise of the Helicon and its poor visibility isn't really the problem. The problem are pedestrians. Someone crosses in the walkway, slips and falls at the car, and is instantly sliced up like a ham. Also, birds will tend to explode in front of you. It was such a stupid idea.
Both the Marzal and the Holden don't belong at all in this "strangest cars". The Modulo and Stratos Zero were just studies to see how low a car could be made, while still being driveable. The Zero won with just a small margin. When it arrived at Lancia's HQ, it just drove under the barrier blocking access to all other cars.
Totally missed the point of the Reliant Robin. Three-wheeled cars were used in the UK because you could drive one with only a motorcycle license. A three-wheel car was classed as a motorcycle and had been for decades, when 4-wheel cars were expensive to buy and insure. Why don't producers research better?
But jet (air breathing thrust monster) ≠ turbine (whirly bits manipulating pressure). Steam turbines and ramjets are both things. Why say words if not using meanings.
Hard work watching and listening to this, annoying script, artificial voice (I like to see the narrator), loads of factual errors and mispronunciations.
Jet engines were created by Germany? News to me. And to anyone who knows about Frank Whittle. But thanks - I now know I don't need to watch any more of this badly researched nonsense and I get 23 minutes of my life back!
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The jet engine was developed independently in England and Germany starting before WW2.
Frank Whittle (English) patented the jet engine in 1930 and is technically the inventor of the gas turbine.
God bless Frank. Typical of a Yank to ignore our contribution.
Russia had the first flying jet-engined plane, though.
Frank Whittle, a British officer made a jet turbine engine mounted on the ground that oversped & blew up in '27.
Perhaps worth checking up a little on the history of the jet engine... Whilst turbines go back as far as 1790, the first jet engine is usually attributed to Frank Whittle in the UK, although the Germans were slightly faster at getting a working et engine into the air. Whittle's patent was granted in 1932, the German developer Von Ohain later admitted that his work and patent (1935) on jet engines was helped by Whittle's patent... If you look at aviation, jet aircraft have a higher maintenance cost than piston aircraft...
Thanks for your comment. I was thinking that, but I could not have said it better than you.
@@stephensowell9578 Thank you Stephen, it must have taken 10 seconds to find the relevant wikipedia page! Maybe should have credited the page?
@peterchandler8505 - @3:03 They give us a brief blurb about turbine powered cars, mentioning the Chrysler turbine car, but nothing at all about the car on screen. I don't think this weird green car even exists. It doesn't show up on a google image search except for this video.
Per horsepower developed, turbine engines have lower maintenance due to the lack of mechanical contact. That's why commercial aircraft are jets.
However their fuel consumption is much worse than well designed piston engines and drops badly below about 400BHP due to clearances. This is why there's a changeover between piston and turbine for aircraft at around 400BHP, and why warships have Diesels for cruising and turbines for war speed.
Thank you, I'm glad someone pointed that fact out.
All pretty cool cars. So glad you mentioned the 56 Buick Centurian. Had the pleasure of seeing it at the Sloan museum in Flint Michigan. Another cool one was the 1985 Wildcat, awesome looking for it's time.
You missed the main selling point of the Reliant Robin - you needed only a motorcycle license to drive it on UK roads.
Also the car taxation rates were the same as a motorcycle. Having driven one, they were pretty OK little machines, although probably unsuited for longer haul journeys. Having said that, our Reliant - owning neighbours in Portsmouth used to take the family to Scotland every summer, and they all seemed to have a very OK time.
It would have been more stable if there were two wheels on the front, like the Morgan.
I can't believe the creativity behind these cars! The designs are so unique and some are just outright bizarre. My favorite has to be the car that looks like a spaceship!
I have a Jones for weird cars this video succeeds in satisfying that obsession! I especially love the Art Deco inspired Designs and those from the 50s!Thanks for posting
Turbine engines were a British invention, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain in Germany.
The United States and Russia got their first jet engines off the British.
The first Russian and American jets had Rolls Royce engines.
Rover made the jet 1 a turbine engined car in the late 40s early 50s.
And im sure whittle built a jet engine before the Germans .
Liked the Ford GT90!
Noticdd you left out the UK when you mentioned cars with turbines,what about the Rover Jet1 1950s???
I like the Phantom Corsair. That thing looked so cool.
You forgot to mention that the Brits -- Whittle - invented and patented the FIRST TURPINE
Hey! Don't trip over my car, man!
I mean LITERALLY, don't trip over my car, man!
Rover made a Turbine car
yeah back in the late fifties ah think it was based on a Rover 90 , it got up ti 155 mph , scary for a car that maxed at about 80/90 mph , aye !
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 A turbine car (Rover?) was driven by Graham Hill at Le Mans in the early 60's
Chrysler also, but not the one show in the picture.
First time i knew the rover Jet1 even existed was when a guest on Top Gear, ( musician/ presenter) Jools Holland showed pics of the one he owned.
Cool list of mostly 50s, 60s, and 70s cars. You should add Jay Leno's cars. He made this steam car and jet car.
Where's the car?
Car: "I'm down here!"
I would have added the Dodge Prowler, the original VW Beetle (just because it was so different to anything else at the time), and the Merc AVTR Vision Concept
Loved the video
I'm enjoying the video because it brings together a lot of clips of some very exotic and cool cars, but as others have said, the research is off a lot of the time, as is the editing. For example the narrator just mentioned Lamborghini and the video showed a photo of someone who is very obviously Enzo Ferrari.
13:39 "made it perfect for couples"
My parents first car was a BMW Isetta 😀
That Chrysler Atlantic! Wow! They so should have made that!
FYI, Rover (UK) built a concept turbine car in 1951. England also invented the jet engine, and the Harrier plane AND the first supersonic passenger jet, Concord, in1969, and the World Wide Web through Tim Berners-Lee! But as a nation we couldn't sell a life-vest to a drowning man ... Thank goodness for our subsidiary Country, the USA ,to take on the retail side of things. Please could you pay us a Royalty ;-)
The mistakes and howlers in this make it most unusual.
As many as 3,925 Isettas were sold in the US. all with 4 wheels !😄😄😄😄😄
That Ferrari Rainbow reminds me of my friends Fiat X19.... also has TR7 vibes. I think it's pretty cool to be honest.
@11:46 that's Enzo Ferrari you silly sausage not Lamborghini. Doh!
This Ford guy had never heard of the GT 90, WOW.
Add the 1985 Aston Martin Lagonda
The Ferrari Rainbow ... Obviously the Forerunner of the Fiat X19.....Identical Shape
Or, maybe the Porsche 914 ?
There is a reason why 3 wheel atv's are no longer made.
Don’t hit any stray cats with that propeller car.
They've got wipers
No Bond Bug? Like the Reliant Robin it was a three wheeler (so could be driven on a motorbike licence) and looked like a wedge of cheese. It did have an alarming tendency to wheelie and a popular myth was that it could end up sat on its back.
As per the Ferrari Rainbow's removable top being innovative
, I note the mid '50s Ford T-birds with fully removable hard tops
What is that next to the Lancia Stratos at 2:28? That's pretty weird as well.
The Bulldog looks like an over stretched Lotus Esprit.
First time I saw the Ferrari Rainbow I swear I thought it was just a Fiero or MR2 with a slight body job. I guess it was the other way around and Pontiac and Toyota designed their mid-engine cars after the Rainbow.
4:00 I beg your pardon? The jet engine was invented by British engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer Frank Whittle.
@@amcconnell6730 THANK YOU SIR!!! Everyone goes on about the Germans inventing the jet engine,obviously theyre not as clued up as they claim to be!!Sir Frank Whittle ws the first to design build and run the Original Jet Turbine,Shouldve been Knighted for his work,
@@michaejshannonshaw9852 The first jet plane which could fly and was ready for combat was German. Period. If your idea would be right the first telephone and the first computer would be German.
@@anonymusum The idea of the jet engine was not new, but the technical problems involved could not begin to be solved until the 1930s. Frank Whittle, an English inventor and RAF officer, began development of a viable jet engine in 1928,[1] and Hans von Ohain in Germany began work independently in the early 1930s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft#:~:text=Frank%20Whittle%2C%20an%20English%20inventor,aircraft%2C%20made%20its%20first%20flight.
Poorly and superficially researched. More a fascination/obsession with the words "weird and "strange" than info.
Par for the course. I also find the metric measurements irritating. Might as well say it went 457 gobbledygooks per hour.
Lofl, so true.@@j.kevvideoproductions.6463
The noise of the Helicon and its poor visibility isn't really the problem. The problem are pedestrians. Someone crosses in the walkway, slips and falls at the car, and is instantly sliced up like a ham. Also, birds will tend to explode in front of you. It was such a stupid idea.
Both the Marzal and the Holden don't belong at all in this "strangest cars". The Modulo and Stratos Zero were just studies to see how low a car could be made, while still being driveable. The Zero won with just a small margin. When it arrived at Lancia's HQ, it just drove under the barrier blocking access to all other cars.
Some people think my 2002 Chevy HHR is a Automotive Freak Of Nature
Srangest? no many were groundbreaking the Stratos one of the most Iconic cars ever
It is not very consistent to have production car, prototypes and concept car on the same list. They should be separated.
you forgot the "Firevird 4" now THAT was a batmobile!
Totally missed the point of the Reliant Robin. Three-wheeled cars were used in the UK because you could drive one with only a motorcycle license. A three-wheel car was classed as a motorcycle and had been for decades, when 4-wheel cars were expensive to buy and insure. Why don't producers research better?
Fascinating!
as normal, americans change the facts, Frank Whittle invented the jet engine ENGLISH!!
05:35 - Ford had a model available (Skyliner) from 1957 through 1959 which featured a fully automatic retractable hardtop.
the Diva reminds of of the Lotus.
I saw the Holden hurricane at GMH Fishermans Bend when I was an apprentice there
A lot of these vehicles were not strange, odd. They were beautiful
I wouldn’t want to drive in the first one beside a 18 wheeler
Poorly researched, factually incorrect in places, intended for the masses - not enthusiasts.
Unique cars bring new style
No blind spots
The last I don’t see on a road with potholes or in snow
Skoda made 2 stoke cars...oil.gas mix....nice smoke
At 16:28 ...that is an awesome car!!!!!!!
Chrysler atlantic is the car for me.
according to the story attached to that photo, they were lying - because that image is AI generated.
3.04 as a 10- year old, Jeff Koons designed a car.
Elon's husk
Kerosene
Cool cars
Ohhh nooo
They were very weird. I like 'em.
How can you not mention the BMW Isetta was Steve Urkel's car
Lancia is pronounced "LAWN-cheeyah."
You need to se-sit your "history 101".
(11:46) Dude shows Enzo Ferrari when he talks about Feruccio Lamborghini. Hilarious!
That's the American way of knowing history :)
Pitty that the designers of Italian exotics are not mentioned!!!
I thought the Ferrari Rainbow was a tricked out Fierro. And Enzo Ferrari is rolling over in his grave for being identified as Ferrucio Lamborghini
Der Sound ist viel zu stark verzerrt.
But jet (air breathing thrust monster) ≠ turbine (whirly bits manipulating pressure). Steam turbines and ramjets are both things.
Why say words if not using meanings.
Especially love those cars from the Italian design-studios, but almost all the American concept vehicles were butt-ugly!
Now we know were adrian newey got his muse from the FFZERO1 you can see some of the features that were borought for his car
Lancia is pronounced "Lancha", the i is not pronounced!
Get your facts straight, re jet propulsion. You have destroyed a pretty good video with incorrect bullshit. Do your homework.
The Ferrari Rainbow looks like a love child of a Ferrari 308 and a Lancia Stratos Rallye(not this ugly prototype)
3:05 What is the brand or designer? No naming in the video. Show me pics of it in books from the 60's. Unless it's AI-generated...?
Hooters car
Got idea for movie B T T F.
Death bulb.
Hard work watching and listening to this, annoying script, artificial voice (I like to see the narrator), loads of factual errors and mispronunciations.
4:30 thats not a real car, Chrysler have a turbofan car name Turbine
The Atlantic is my choice.
First to comment!! Yay! I feel accomplished with today.
You failed to identify the second car which looks like Lady Penelope’s weekend ride
Do you have a time stamp to the car you're talking about?
3:07
Ridiculous.
Too much editorializing; get on with it !! !
It's SO COOL that You, chatter to You-self, so adamantly. Like, I Never Heard This B$ ,B4? Nope. Not a fan.
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Bread.
hell yeah
Lol
Too much hp
Pimp ride with a nice rack
Your facts really suck
LAHNCHEEE-AH STRRATOS. Please speak Italiano!!!
Jet engines were created by Germany? News to me. And to anyone who knows about Frank Whittle. But thanks - I now know I don't need to watch any more of this badly researched nonsense and I get 23 minutes of my life back!
AMC pacer copied...unreal and fkn ugly brah.