Volkswagen + jet engine = RocketBeetle

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

People talk about some sports cars that drive like they have a jet engine under the hood. Well, engineer Ron Patrick has turned that metaphor into reality, installing a real jet engine into his VW Beetle. He installed and modified everything himself, with the entire project costing him about $250,000. The jet boosts his engine by a cool 1,350 horsepower and is actually street legal in California because it still runs on the VW's factory engine. He claims he isn't sure what the top speed is because once it hits 160 mph the car starts to lift off the ground, which sounds like a pretty wussy excuse to us. Next on Mr. Patrick's plate, and this isn't a joke, is adding two jet engines to his wife's Honda Metropolitan scooter, which sounds like the most terrifying and unsafe vehicle ever conceived. There are loads of photos of both the Beetle and the in-progress scooter over at his Web site. If this looks like something you'd like to do, keep in mind he has a PhD in engineering, and unless you've got one, too, there's a high probability you'll end up smearing yourself all over a hard surface somewhere. — Adam Frucci

Source (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/volkswagen_jet_engine_rocketbeetle.html)

Ron Patrick's jet powered Volkswagen Beetle and Honda scooter (http://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/01/ron-patricks-jet-powered-volkswagen-beetle-and-honda-scooter/)

[pegasus]

Bearing in mind that one jet engine is more than enough to lift a small car of the ground, me wonders what is he trying to achieve by adding two to a scooter???

Oh well... (if he reaches top speed in one piece) he may travel back in time or even end up in another dimension for all I care (ROFLMAO)

According to the theory of relativity, time/space temporal distortion (AKA Space Fold or Hyper Space) can be achieved under certain circumstances

Anyway... if you want to learn more... just click on the following links

http://monet.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/chaos.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_(science_fiction)

[NealT]

I remember the days when the 'dune buggy' first came out. I remember how people modified their bugs to make them look cool. However, this is

ONE FAST CAR