Most Japanese performance car enthusiasts are familiar with the 13B twin-rotor engine Mazda equipped the RX-7 and RX-8 with. But unless you've owned and modified an RX of some type, chances are you ...
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. -- Back when Wankel rotary engines held promise for the future, it wasn't just Mazda in Japan that was pioneering them. Along came NSU in Germany. In 1967, NSU was selling the ...
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Great Motoring Disasters: NSU Ro80
It was a beautiful car then, and it’s still a beautiful car now. But beneath its shapely skin lurked the germ of its maker’s destruction, as well as technology that plenty of carmakers would ...
A Wankel engine is a type of rotary engine, but not all rotary engines are Wankel engines. Wrapping your mind around this idea will help you to better understand the similarities as well as the ...
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, a German book salesman named Felix Wankel entertained a revolutionary, if not heretical notion: he fell to wondering if the standard gasoline engine, man’s commonest prime mover ...
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