Powered by two Rolls Royce Jet Engines, each delivering over 50,000lbs of thrust.

Coincidentally the car was called Thrust.

And all the American cars between 1960-66 had Jet engines. ONe even had little bombs that exploded and thrust the car forward.

Craig Breedlelove - Spirit of America, Spirit of America II
Art Arfson - The Green Machine
Walter Arfson - some weird name or other.

I watched a program last night after Top Gear about it. Beated learning my German.

He he, in Top Gear, two adrenaline junkies climbed a 1000foot cliff in 1hour 57 min (a 6 hour route) whilst he travelled 60 miles in the new Audi (2 hours 6 minutes). He then raced them back to the start line. He took another 2 hours. They just jumped - 20 seconds.