Toyota Century GT45
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The Toyota Century with the GT45 gas turbine engine was a concept vehicle first shown at the 1975 Tokyo Motor Show.
A GT45 gas turbine engine was mounted in a Toyota Century. The engine took a lot of room, so the Century was one of the few Toyotas with an engine bay big enough. The engine was connected to an electrical generator connected to batteries, which then drove an electric motor connected to the front wheels. Using kerosene, 160km/hr could be reached and 120km/hr could be reached using the batteries alone.
The Century was first trialed in this manner in 1971 but not shown to the public until 1975. A similar system was trialed from 1971 on some Toyota buses.
Another version of the engine was shown at the 1977 Tokyo Motor Show (GT24)[1] and another at the 1985 Tokyo Motor Show (Gas Turbine II in the Toyota GTV).[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Toyota brochure from the 1977 Tokyo Motor Show (Japanese)
- ^ Toyota brochure from the 1985 Tokyo Motor Show (Japanese)
- Unless separately cited, all information is from the 1975 Tokyo Motor Show Magazine (Japanese)
[edit] External links
- GT45 Toyota concept cars.
