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Wankel Rotary engined vehicle - No Googling

  • 01-09-2008 10:14pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭


    Might aswell follow this recent trend...

    Apart from the Mazda RX-7 / RX-8, and the Citroen GS Birotor, care to name anymore rotary engined vehicles?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭E92


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Might aswell follow this recent trend...

    Apart from the Mazda RX-7 / RX-8, and the Citroen GS Birotor, care to name anymore rotary engined vehicles?
    NSU Ro80?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    NSU R080


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    NSU 80(I think?)

    Ah, dammit, heavily beaten...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Damn it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    Mazda RX-2 and RX-3:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    NSU Prinz Wankel Sport

    several Mazdas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭VH


    nsu mass-marketted the rotary engine and offered a life time warranty - hence they went bust a long time ago


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Boys, ye're looking in the wrong place entirely:

    Suzuki RE-5 and Norton 588

    mmmm, I suspect there was a Merc of some type tried with it too......

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Citroen M35

    Mercedes C111


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    Chevrolet Corvette.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭WHITE_P


    I know its not a car, but here you go. I remember it well from Top Trumps.

    http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/van_veen_ocr_1000_1978.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭peterk19


    mazda R100
    mazda cosmo
    and it think a few mazda 808 were ship with rotary motors oh and there deffo was a merc of some type think it was a c11 or something cant be sure tho


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    peterk19 wrote: »
    mazda R100
    mazda cosmo
    and it think a few mazda 808 were ship with rotary motors oh and there deffo was a merc of some type think it was a c11 or something cant be sure tho

    787b if Le Man cars count?

    Didnt expect anyone to get the cosmo.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭peterk19


    787b if Le Man cars count?

    Didnt expect anyone to get the cosmo.:)

    lol ah i am a big fan of mazda rotary's engines and thats was probably the only one left unmentioned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Not quite a vehicle but cool all the same, especially if you are into chainsaws like me.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEREL4BMGo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭pyramuid man


    Jensen Interceptor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭WHITE_P


    Jensen Interceptor

    Don't think so. Chrysler V-8.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Interceptor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭pyramuid man


    WHITE_P wrote: »
    oops. My bad. Always thought that they were rotary engined.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Might aswell follow this recent trend...

    Apart from the Mazda RX-7 / RX-8, and the Citroen GS Birotor, care to name anymore rotary engined vehicles?

    mx-5, though there normally mazda-speed conversions...


    the mx-3 was supposed to use the rotary but they gave it the gay ford 2.5 v6....


    mazda az-1 has a rotary also theres a 70's small jap with the 1.0 100 hp version, the engine that noteably can be fitted into a suitcase...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    S.I.R wrote: »
    the mx-3 was supposed to use the rotary but they gave it the gay ford 2.5 v6....
    Do you mean MX-6 ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭WHITE_P


    oops. My bad. Always thought that they were rotary engined.

    No worries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Didnt the MX3 have a small,as in under 2litre V6?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Can't believe that no one has mentioned the VW Beetle yet!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭peterk19


    Can't believe that no one has mentioned the VW Beetle yet!

    deffo not rotary they were available in both boxer and flat 4 from what i remember


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Can't believe that no one has mentioned the VW Beetle yet!
    Yes,boxer only,unless someone had gone mad on the mods!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Biro wrote: »
    Chevrolet Corvette.

    Eh, no.

    5.7L V8 actually.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭E92


    Didnt the MX3 have a small,as in under 2litre V6?
    It was a 1.8(though over 1800 cc IIRC)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Eh, no.

    5.7L V8 actually.

    And in all the generations and variations of the Corvette, do you think they only ever put a 5.7 V8 into it? :D
    The C6 has a 6.3 V8 and a 7 litre V8 in the Z06. Go back a few generations though... see what you can dig up and post back here!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    E92 wrote: »
    It was a 1.8(though over 1800 cc IIRC)

    Yep, that's why I was wondering if he meant the MX-6. He mentioned a Ford 2.5 V6, the MX-6 was platform shared with the Ford Probe, and had a 2.5 V6, so I'm thinking that's where he was coming from. I don't remember Mazda going to give that a rotary, but he might be right. Would that have made it a RX-6?


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