I dunno. I mean, the comedy handling, the giant trunk, very reliable, parts are cheap and plentiful anywhere, big bench seats, American climate control?

Well, it's not what I'd consider a roadtrip, but there are fun places within a Leaf's range of my house.

This is really more a job for a etymologists-I'm a mechanical engineer (hardly the only one on the site) and I'm not sure I know for sure :-)

I think this is where we'll have to disagree then!

I was actually wrong about the steam turbine size-someone (Siemens, I think) makes a 1900 MW unit. Just ridiculous.

Steam turbines and wind turbines use their mechanical motion to power generators. Are you saying anything hooked to a generator isn't an engine?

I think you're wrong here.

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

32x700 MW turbines. That's amazing, but there are bigger turbines than that listed here!

Don't think so. Someone's posted a 1375 MW steam turbine-that's an order of magnitude more power.

I don't think de-coupled systems are as much fun as a gas turbine, but I see the point. Someone posted an epic 1375 MW steam turbine from Alstom elsewhere-definitely the biggest thing power output from a single device I've heard of.

If we're talking dimensions, there's only one place to go-wind turbines.

Steam turbines (and other steam operated stuff) are heat engines, I'll give you that-so we should probably have the Alstom on here.

For the record-375 MW is 500,000 horsepower. The Wartsila can suck it.

Nah. It's low on the output scale-only 80 MW. They make industrial gas turbines that dwarf that.

Not really, that I can find.

Rockets totally count-but that has 5 engines, for the record :-)

Since Kinja ate my post-

Industrial gas turbine laugh at your puny GE90-115B. Say hello to

That's nobody's business but the Turks.