If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012, the ...
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Innovation came early with the 1967 NSU Ro 80 and its rotary engine
In the late 1960s, when most sedans still looked and drove like rolling conservatism, NSU put a radical four-door on the road with a smooth rotary heart and a shape that seemed to have rolled in from ...
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NSU Ro80 pushed design into the future early
The NSU Ro80 introduced a futuristic design and advanced engineering that stood far ahead of its era. Featuring a twin-rotor Wankel engine and aerodynamic styling, it set new ideas for what a modern ...
The oddball you’re looking at is called the NSU Ro 80 2 Porte + 2, a curious creation from Pininfarina that you probably haven’t heard of—until now. This unique one-off is about to hit the auction ...
Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...
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