cost efficiency, emissions regulations, and estimated potential in the market, which were the reasons the world never saw the Wankel rotary engine used in an American car.

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Alec Shkolnik, co-founder and CEO of LiquidPiston, to explore how ...

Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

For every iconic rotary-engined car, there are many more innovative ... Rather than purchase a license from NSU to produce the Wankel engine found in the likes of the Spider and Ro80, Soviet ...

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While Mazda was the first to bring rotary power to the mass market, Mercedes-Benz almost gave them a run for their money.

It's starting to look more and more likely that the Wankel rotary engine could have a future as ... The 10 kilowatt-hour battery gives the car a 19-mile electric range and a 2.6-gallon gas tank ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s smooth operation ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

But like all rotary-engined cars, it had a tragic thirst for fuel ... The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

The RX-3 wasn’t the next rotary Mazda produced – that ... this one has the clearest links to the most recent Wankel-engined car, the RX-8. The 12A engine is remarkably smooth, spinning with ...

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