Creativity Unbound: Part 1 of 2.(News)

Byline: Roger Hart, Natalie Neff, Dutch Mandel, Larry Edsall No, Thanks, I'll Take the Jet... Car When you have the top-rated nighttime talk show, sell out theaters around the country, make a gazillion dollars a year and you're a car guy, you can see your dreams come true. That's how Jay Leno's cocktail-napkin drawings of his dream car turned into reality via designers and engineers from General Motors.

EcoJet is the creation Leno drew up and GM designed and built. Powered by a midship-mounted 650-hp, 400- lb-ft Honeywell LT-101 jet turbine that runs on biodiesel fuel, the car ...

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