Quote Originally Posted by Whitehouse View Post
How hard can it be to obtain a turbine engine these days?
The closest thing you could get to "off the shelf" would be a turboshaft engine from a small helicopter, and even then you'd have to extend the wheelbase of a 300 by a few feet to squeeze the thing in there. Then you'd have to deal with emissions standards [[you'd probably fail every emissions test there is.) You can't just bolt a 700HP turboshaft engine onto a regular transmission, so you'll need a whole new drivetrain, and type acceptance for a new drivetrain lasts about six to eight years and can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ultimately you'd have a long-nosed 300 that would probably cost around a million dollars per car - if you wanted to break even.

But hey, Chrysler could say they are selling a turbine-based car. So there'd be that.