Wankel

The RX-7, no longer sold in the US, is the only car on the road with a rotary engine, also known as a Wankel, after Felix Wankel, who invented it.

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How did Mazda, a Japanese car company best known for using a funny named engine, the Wankel, reinvent the classic British sports car?

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How did Mazda, a Japanese car company best known for using a funny named engine, the Wankel, reinvent the classic British sports car?

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It was designed with the Wankel rotary engine in mind, which would have really been a space pod if it had come to pass!

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Using four pairs of Wankel engines, the vehicle is designed for vertical takeoff and landing, and may eventually be capable of fully automated flight.

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The hallmark of the company was its fuel-hungry but technically advanced Wankel rotary engine.

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Mazda had been charging higher-than-average prices for cars in its market segment, even though the Wankel was cheaper to make than ordinary engines.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

Scrapping the Wankel meant Mazda would now be selling ordinary cars, so prices had to come down.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

Wankel said it was premature to judge the eradication program by the poppy cultivation figures as his effort is just getting off the ground.

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