Turbocharged engines are fairly common in modern vehicles, but in the early 1960s turbo systems were an emerging technology. One of the earliest turbo systems was the Jetfire Turbo Rocket add-on that Oldsmobile introduced as an option on the Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass Coupe midway through the 1962 model year. Oldsmobile barely lost the race to get the first turbocharger to market to Chevrolet, which introduced the Corvair Spyder Turbo two weeks earlier. The Oldsmobile Jetfire System required a mixture of
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