It's an amazing experience since the power band really--isn't. It produces pretty much exactly the same torque at zero rpm as it does at full speed and amidst an almost dead silence, it feels like it will never stop accelerating.
The Petersen Automotive Museum in LA has a Chrysler Turbine in its collection. I think one of the prettiest cars ever.
On edit: IIRC Ford produced a turbine-powered over-the-road tractor on its L-series cab-over chassis in the sixties. If memory serves it could out-pull just about anything else on the road at the time, but on-going maintenance costs made it commercially impractical.
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