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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 ...
The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...
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The 13B rotary that made Mazda engineering feel completely different
Mazda’s 13B rotary engine did more than power a string of sports cars. It forced an entire engineering department to think differently about combustion, packaging, and character, and it left a mark on ...
Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...
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