[BenLurkin]

Years ago I got to ride in a Mazda with a Wankel engine. Accelration was very smooth and the car was “quick” (if not all that fast).

But it was brand new.Those engines wore out real fast.

[dglang]

I used to own a Mazda wagon with the rotary. I took a friend on a long vacation from Chicago into Canada and then to Disney land if California and back home again.

I took me about a day and a half returning home from California which included stops and wandering through the painted desert/petrified forest in Arizona along with a stop for a shower and cooking dinner at a state park in Oklahoma.

On our trip out west, we went through Montana at an average speed a little over 100 mph and a high speed of 120 mph. The rotary was actually more fuel efficient the faster one drove.

I remember one time on the Eisenhower expressway in Chicago when I went from a dead stop to 70 mph in FIRST gear alone and the car was very willing to go much faster. It had a constant feeling of tremendous acceleration during that event.

[peeps36]

I read that a new Mazda RX 8 burns through a quart of oil every 500 miles. A lot of people are afraid to buy a new car that burns oil like that.