Mazda keeps trying to make Wankel happen.

Kinja'd!!! "bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
09/20/2017 at 14:29 • Filed to: mazda, rotary, electric vehicles

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Apparently they’re !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , as well as a range-extended EV.

Never mind that the technology that can barely bring a Wankel into compliance would be better used making boingers better...


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Kinja'd!!! Chariotoflove > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 14:35

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And I love them for it.


Kinja'd!!! McMike > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 14:38

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I don’t know why they keep rejecting this idea. These engines powered all the great WW1 and a lot of the WW2 aircraft.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike
09/20/2017 at 14:52

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Hon hon hon hon hon.

-Gnome/Le-Rhone


Kinja'd!!! My bird IS the word > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 15:07

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Comes out with revolutionary skyactiv engine, immediately goes back to wankel


Kinja'd!!! bhtooefr > McMike
09/20/2017 at 15:11

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Wait, rotaries  in WW2?

Radials, yes, but rotaries?


Kinja'd!!! McMike > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 15:17

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Yeah, that’s what I meant.

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Kinja'd!!! mazda616 > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 15:27

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I love Mazda (we own two of them) but even I can admit it’s time to move on from the rotary.


Kinja'd!!! bhtooefr > McMike
09/20/2017 at 15:32

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I figured you meant rotaries (as in radials, except the crankcase spins and the crankshaft is fixed), which were very much a thing in WW1, but were completely dead by WW2.


Kinja'd!!! McMike > bhtooefr
09/20/2017 at 15:43

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I know what a rotary is.

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:)


Kinja'd!!! AkursedX > McMike
09/20/2017 at 15:58

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I’d drive that!


Kinja'd!!! gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > bhtooefr
09/21/2017 at 20:44

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i wonder if given the very tiny size, and weight of a wankel if it would be a good match as an ev extender?