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You’ve likely never come across the 1967 NSU Ro 80 and its risky engine design

The 1967 NSU Ro 80 looked like it had driven in from the future, with a slippery body, a glassy, sparse cabin and a ...
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Innovation came early with the 1967 NSU Ro 80 and its rotary engine

In the late 1960s, when most sedans still looked and drove like rolling conservatism, NSU put a radical four-door on the road ...
TopSpeed

Mazda's Rotary Engine Efforts Are Alive And Well

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...
Autoblog

The Engine That Almost Killed Mazda — and Why It’s Still Alive Today

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...
TopSpeed

Despite Its Many Shortcomings, Here's Why Mazda Relentlessly Pursued The Rotary Engine

Antonio is a chemical engineering student pursuing his master's degree in chemical engineering and sustainable processes. Throughout his academic journey, he has gained substantial knowledge in areas ...
New Atlas

Tiny Wankel engine packs a power punch above its weight class

The electric motor might carry the hype banner at the moment, but some minds remain convinced that there's plenty of innovation left to be extracted from internal combustion. AIE is one of the rotary ...
Jalopnik

The World's Weirdest Rotary Engine Is A 118-Year-Old French Spinner That Leaks Castor Oil Everywhere

While modern engines feature many tweaks and improvements on the original ideas, they usually aren't as interesting as the strange contraptions engineers experimented with in the early days. Take, for ...