Yeah I like Jay Leno and his program of restoring and driving old cars. He is rich, funny, and studies the subject well enough to do the subject some justice.

Turbines do not work well as powerplants for cars though, they need to to run at high rpm for efficiency. They end up wasting an enormous amount of fuel unless they are used at a high percentage of their usable rpm range for long periods of time without much variation. At best you would need a smaller powerplant for local driving to keep efficiency high, which doubles the cost of the car. Therefore this Eco-car is not a good idea. A few years ago another celebrity tinkerer, Neil Young, tried to make a turbine car and found the same thing. And of course Chrysler threw a ton of money at turbine cars in the 60s and decided it was not worth pursuing. Their hope was through economies of scale the turbines would be pretty cheap to make and gas would be cheap a long time too.

Linc Volt hybrid car