Yah know, I laughed my ass of at that, but I'm not going to give you a hard time about it. It's completely and totally wrong, oh my god is it wrong....but there is a similarity.
It actually has more in common with a steam engine then a thrust-producing jet engine.
Steam engine: Hot steam spins turbine, that spins a shaft, that drives the wheels.
Y2K Rolls Royce-Allison Gas Turbine engine: Hot gasses from burned fuel spin turbine, that spins a shaft, that drives the wheels.
Thrust producing jet engine: Hot gasses from burned fuel spin turbines and expand rapidly out the ass, producing thrust.
Gross oversimplifications, but still, they're all bad ass.
Thrust
Shaft HP
Steam engine? Take the shaft-hp engine, remove the combustors, and replace them with pipes that lead to a boiler. You can actually rig it to spin both sides of the turbine unit and produce shitloads of torque...at the expense of lot of added weight...oh and boiler explosions:
http://www2.jsonline.com/news/2000/y2k/ourcentury/images/CENTURY-BOILER.jpg