The first car with the Wankel was NSU, with Mazda later adopting ... Chevrolet developed both 2- and 4-Rotor motors and put them in special Corvette show cars for 1973, even though the company ...

This Wankel car is faster 0-100 mph than 454." View Photos Even more remarkable than the Cor­vette 4-Rotor's performance is the fact that it's drivetrain could be made almost entirely from ...

The turbocharged 4-rotor Wankel engine pumps out a whopping 1,240 hp (1,257 PS / 924 kW), which is over 300 hp (304 PS / 223 kW) more than what the 787B offered. One of the other main highlights ...

Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors acted as counterweights, the engine vibrated less than ...

Mazda was an early and steadfast proponent of the Wankel engine. It signed a development contract with NSU in 1959 and displayed its 2-rotor and 4-rotor Wankel engines at the 1964 Tokyo Motor Show.

This was chiefly due to its use of a Wankel engine, also known as a rotary engine. Instead of a conventional motor that uses pistons housed in cylinders to provide power, a rotary engine uses a ...

this time with a quad-rotor Wankel engine. Thanks to the inclusion of one extra rotor over the previous iteration, the motor ...

According to the report, the wankel engines market was valued at $47.0 million in 2023, and is estimated to reach $100.4 million by 2033 ... and development of rotary engines is expected to ...

Felix Wankel, an engineer at NSU, had been experimenting since 1954 with a simpler internal-combustion engine. His elegant design consisted of a rounded triangular "rotor" that spun in an oval ...