Leno's Ride Gets All the Looks as He Shows Up to Local Cruise in EcoJet Concept

Leno's Ride Gets All the Looks as He Shows Up to Local Cruise in EcoJet Concept

After signing off from the Tonight Show last week, Jay Leno figured he would have a weekend of doing nothing but playing with his cars. Which of course made this past weekend no different than any other weekend for Jay.

This time, as our Straightline sister site reports, he pulled out one of his more interesting and rare toys: the EcoJet turbine-powered concept (pictured).

You might remember the EcoJet concept from the 2006 SEMA show. It uses a 650-horsepower Honeywell turbine for power and runs on biodiesel -- lots and lots of biodiesel.

Underneath, there's an all-aluminum Corvette Z06 chassis, while the body of the EcoJet is made entirely of carbon fiber and kevlar. In other words, this sucker was expensive.

We'll hand it to Jay, though, he said back then that he would drive it on public roads, and Monday he delivered on that promise. And say what you will about the design, when this thing pulled into the parking lot with its turbine wailing, all the open-piped Cobras on hand suddenly seemed quite tame.

Scott Doggett:  is an AutoObserver.com Associate Editor.