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Old 5 Apr 2004, 20:12 (Ref:931476)   #1
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History of Rotary

For those with interest in the Mazda´s with rotary engines at Le Mans see this great article here.

Ayse, Fab feel free to move this to an appropriate thread (I couldn´t find one).
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Old 5 Apr 2004, 21:31 (Ref:931568)   #2
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Great article! Thanks!
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Old 5 Apr 2004, 21:35 (Ref:931575)   #3
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The Mazda 787B one of the best looking cars ever....
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 05:41 (Ref:931832)   #4
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The Mazda 787B one of the best looking cars ever....
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 12:03 (Ref:932152)   #5
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It's funny how everyone has a fondness for those cars. Me included, even though one very nearly ran me down...
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 12:27 (Ref:932190)   #6
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Of course, the man who invented the rotary engine can't be mentioned because his name gets auto-censored everywhere.
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 13:05 (Ref:932244)   #7
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You mean Felix Wankel?
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 13:20 (Ref:932263)   #8
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What! you mean it wasn't Billy Big B*llocks??
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 14:03 (Ref:932318)   #9
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You mean Felix Wankel?
I thought it was Wankel too...
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 15:02 (Ref:932381)   #10
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Yep it was, Rotary engine's are also called Wankelengine's
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Old 6 Apr 2004, 16:46 (Ref:932484)   #11
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Oh, it looks like someone has edited the auto-censor, when i tried to type wankel a while ago it got censored...
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Old 7 Apr 2004, 07:30 (Ref:933079)   #12
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It's definitely Wankel !!!
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Old 7 Apr 2004, 07:31 (Ref:933080)   #13
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but probably if you were dyslexic and wrote w a n k e R , it was au-censored
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