Jay Leno's 95 Year Old Steam Car Passes Modern Cars on the LA Freeway

Jay Leno takes us for a drive around Los Angeles in his 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car. Once owned by Howard Hughes, this is the greatest steam car ever built! It'll even keep up with the crazy Los Angeles freeway traffic!

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[mweleme]

Unbelievable that a steam car would drive that well and even go toe-to-toe with some of the most modern cars. Wow!

[grahamsengineering.]

As a steam enthusiast myself I enjoyed seeing this. Those old steam cars had very long legs on the open road and we could have gone a lot further with steam had it not been for the IC engine and oil companies.

[aaronburratwood.]

Dennis Gage & Jay Leno in a steam car on the streets of LA. What a clip.

[pasthuman]

Out of all his cars that one looks like it's most fun to drive. Just an awesome car!

[raydornbush]

I would love to see steam powered vehicles make an honest come back with present day designs and techniques.... it's doable.

[mileshigh]

The Steam Cars final models could be cold started and be going within 90 seconds! Maybe if cars had been steam, we would not be paying these high gas prices!

[RCALivingStereo]

What’s mind boggling to me is we did this 90 years ago but can’t now????
This car goes more than fast enough for the average highway and roads today
We need steam cars again!

[shanek]

1000# of torque! Pull a big camper with that thing

[feez]

This one should be about a half hour. I'll have to watch it 9 times.

[MrTurboRotary]

I would had looove seeing Jay flooring this car from a standing still to blow off Denise's hat away 😉 into the sky

[strider]

i wish jay had mentioned in his videos on the doble that it had a waltham clock, they made some of the best clocks and watchs en the us for a long time.

[laryedus]

Hi Dennis, Been watching you for 23 years!!!!.

[sinoverlord]

I would love to pull up next to Jay and say hey you have smoke coming from under the car 😂

[andrewclark]

I wish they would have just kept going with steam and never used internal combustion engines.... it's just wild to think where we could be today with steam technology.

[Toasterloaf]

Theoretically, could one make a throttle valve work like a foot pedal for speed? I really wanna see a more thoroughly-engineered, modern take on a steam car.

[kds]

What came before gas, diesel and steam? I'll tell you - electric delivery trucks that used to run around Manhattan. That's what. Nickle metal batteries too. Over a hundred years ago..

[JamesD]

Jay Leno doesn’t know if they’re waving at him, the car or both lol

[Markcain]

You get torque from zero rpm in a steam engine

[paulroconnor]

It was Back To The Future Part III which lead me to believe steam is fast. Or, was that just another miracle old west invention from the Doc?

[edwardsgaming]

Who wouldn't want to drive one of lose