1.an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts. 2.an internal-combustion engine, as the Wankel engine, whose power is developed by a rotor revolving in the combustion chamber. ...
The meaning of ROTARY ENGINE is any of various engines (such as a turbine) in which power is applied to vanes or similar parts constrained to move in a circular path.
But it was preceded by a series of rotary-engine cars, trucks and even buses, starting with the 1967 Cosmo Sport. The last year the RX-7 was sold in the United States was 1995, but the rotary engine is set to make a comeback in the near future. The Mazda RX-8 , a new car ...
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The embargo, which lasted until March 1974, put a damper on the public appetite for large or thirsty cars. Even in countries that weren’t targeted by the embargo, the spike in fuel prices caused sales to plummet except on the smallest, thriftiest models. The rotary engine’s gas guzzler...
Mazda built sixty running pre-production Cosmo Sports and sent them to dealers across Japan for real-world testing. Matsuda was behind the program, for which Yamamoto specified three rotary engine configurations across different geographic regions. In all, the test cars gathered approximately 375,000...
I don't even know what the weak spot is in the engine. I need to build five or 10 of these engines, run them as long as I can, see what's breaking, and make adjustments until we break through the durability numbers we want to hit. There's nothing known right now that's a show...
Rotary engines were awesome. I really thought they were the future, and not camshaft cylinders. Oh well, bring on the Electric cars! Reply Ate Up With Motor April 4, 2015 at 5:18 pm As I understand it, the plugs in a rotary engine inevitably lead a fairly hard life because they’re...
Last but not least, the MX-30 is very likely a harbinger of the rotary engine’s return at Mazda. Wereported last year(andmorerecently) on Mazda’s announcement of a single-rotor engine as a range extender for upcoming electrified cars — an RERE, so to speak. Mazda continues to sociali...
Of all the cars that could’ve but didn’t make the trip over the Pacific, the HB Cosmo is a real head-scratcher. The engine is smack dab in the middle of the chassis, and a quick glance at the interior layout leads me to think the cluster could very easily have been moved whole-...