To: WestVirginiaRebel; uglybiker; kb2614
Remember the "Wankle Engine"?
The engine that was going to revolutionize the car motor of the future.
It was only put in a few dinky trucks and was gone in a few years.
45 posted on
04/22/2006 3:39:54 AM PDT by
PeteB570
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To: PeteB570
"It was only put in a few dinky trucks and was gone in a few years."
Boy, is Mazda ever going to be surprised. Ever heard of the RX-7 or RX-8?
To: PeteB570
52 posted on
04/22/2006 3:56:47 AM PDT by
Nephi
(Illegal immigration is the flip side of the globalist free trade coin. Tony Snow is a globalist.)
To: PeteB570
It was only put in a few dinky trucks and was gone in a few years
Mazda has been offering a rotary engine for over 30 years. I would hardly call the RX7 and RX8 "dinky trucks".
53 posted on
04/22/2006 4:07:38 AM PDT by
Spruce
(Keep your mitts off my wallet)
To: PeteB570
The wankle engine is a darn efficient design. It is NOT a perpetual motion machine. It is an engine.
Further, it is a production engine in Mazda cars. At one point there were aircraft engines as well.
The problem with the rotary engine is sealing. It is a highly effective use of motion and the moving parts are limited, but the area of sealed surfaces is very high.
99 posted on
04/22/2006 7:10:57 AM PDT by
laxcoach
To: PeteB570
The Wankel is the rotary engine Mazda used to use. I think it got caught in the OPEC embargo, as the fuel efficiency couldn't rise much due to limits on compression.
130 posted on
04/24/2006 11:02:25 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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