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The second-generation of Mazda's beloved RX-7 is often left out of the conversation. Here's why it shouldn't be.
For the engines included in this article, we've only selected engines that are distinguished by special quirks and features.
The Lane Motor Museum isn’t your typical showroom of gleaming muscle cars and pristine classics that prompt nostalgic sighs. Instead, it’s a sanctuary for the automotive world’s beautiful misfits, ...
The Lane Motor Museum stands as Tennessee’s best-kept secret for anyone who thinks they’ve seen everything the automotive world has to offer. Nestled in an unassuming former bakery building on ...
Instead of grabbing the biggest saber around, we decided to go with a dagger and see how sharp we could hone the blade.
One-off Pininfarina NSU 2 Porte + 2 with a Wankel engine is heading to auction soon. This unique concept is based on the NSU Ro 80 and boasts striking design features.
The German carmaker NSU Motorenwerke last week displayed an ultra-utilitarian sedan that will, it hopes, sire a new generation of automobiles. Called RO 80, the new car has a strange engine under ...
In 1954, Wankel finished designing a rotary piston engine for NSU known as the Drehkolbenmotor (or the DKM). This rotary-valve-controlled 250cc motorcycle engine was based on the company's Lux and ...
Wankel's company, NSU, was unsurprisingly the first to use the rotary engine in a production car. Wankel's first single-rotor production engine weighed only 125 kilograms (about 276 pounds) and ...
For instance, the three-chambered C 111 Wankel engine has 950 total parts, produces 330 horsepower and has a displacement rating of 3.6 liters.
Unlike the Mazda RX-series rotary engine cars of the past, the MX-30 R-EV is electric but has a Wankel engine for a range-extender Glenn Brooks February 22, 2024 ...