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Video: 180mph onboard a jet-engined racing car

22nd September 2019
Seán Ward

There are rare cars, of which very few were built or survive, and then there are unique cars, vehicles that offer something quite different to the normal automotive proposition. The jet-engined Howmet TX racing car is unique.

While it is still a normal car, in the sense that it has four wheels and a steering wheel, at the back is the jet engine from a helicopter.

Unlike a 'normal' jet car, like a land speed record machine, that would use the jet engine to provide thrust, the turbine in the Howmet actually powers the rear wheels. The result is a car that looks fairly traditional but sounds totaly out of this world, as you can hear from this on board at the Monza Historic. Can you imagine being behind the wheel?

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