Yes, There Is A 12-Rotor Engine — Here's How Much HP It's Trying To Push
Could there possibly be a rotary engine with 12 rotors? The answer is yes, and here’s everything we know about it including ...
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Broken Promises Of The Wankel Engine
The Wankel rotary ... on the engine resumed in 1951 with funding from NSU Motorenwerke AG. The first working prototype was produced in 1957. Dubbed the DKM 54, this engine had a rotor and housing ...
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Home-Built 12-Rotor Wankel Engine Is The Definition Of Crazy
The man just loves his rotary, to the point that he's built a 4-rotor Wankel engine before and shoehorned it into, well, you've guessed it, a Mazda RX-7. While the 4-rotor AWD, Jeep Grand Cherokee ...
A Turbo Single-Rotor Miata Looks Like The Most Fun An NA Can Get
The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the ...
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Rotary engined cars: past, present and future
To make matters worse, rotary engines need their rotor chambers to be lubricated with ... while the C111-II had a 0-62mph time of just 4.9sec. However, even Mercedes’ engineers couldn’t ...
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Mazda builds final rotary engine
Mark it down, auto enthusiasts.Mazda built its last rotary engine on ... of the high-revving engine has seen a few stutters since Mazda put the first dual-rotor Wankel in a production car in ...
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Mazda CEO says rotary not viable, so don't look for a new one
We have some very sad news to report, rotor ... rotary-powered automobile in the world. The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed ...