Interesting Facts
- Introduced as "The Jay Leno Tank Car" on Gran Turismo 4, it ended up in the game "by accident" when the game development team visited Jay's garage for some engine noises. They noticed the car and were so amazed they put it in the game.
- During one of the first freeway test drives an unsuitable oil line blew and dumped the entire 17 gallons of oil onto the road
- The car gets 5 miles per gallon (up from the original performance of 2–3 miles per gallon, after the transmission was replaced.)
- The engine red-lines at 2,900 rpm.
- Jay Leno brought the car on his show when interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger and introduced it as "The Terminator car".
- Jay Leno had a tuning company, Gale Banks Engineering, add twin turbochargers to the engine, not for higher power but to get more miles per gallon.
Blastolene has since made a similar car styled after a 1950s era Indy Car called the Blastolene Indy Special.
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