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> > >>Eastward Bound wrote:
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> > >> Unless if you had a car with the rare
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> > >>>wankel/rotary engine which is no longer made of course.
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> > >>No longer made? Of course it is. Mazda, which to all intents and
> > >>purposes is a subsiduary of Ford, make and sell them by the truckload.
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> > >>Huw
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> > > What I meant to say is that you can no longer buy a brand new car off
> > > the dealers lot that utilized the wankel engine.
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> > Mazda will be shocked to hear your news...
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> > http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/mazda..._overview.html
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> > http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/roadt...1/article.html
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> > Rob
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> Are Rotary engines such a good idea? That is the question. Turbine
> engines looked good on paper, sounded good in theory, but in the end
> no-go.
>
> My V6 reciprocating engine with 200 HP has more horsepower and gets
> better gas mileage.
>
> I guess my question really is, if the rotary engines have more
> potential then the reciprocating engines. Why don't we seem more of
> them?

Did you even read the article? If it's accurate, the RX-8 gets 18 city/23
highway, weighs less, has better distribution and has a double humped power
curve. It's also rated higher than your V6 at 210 horses.

One reason the rotary isn't used as much is because it's a low compression
engine. To make up for the rotary is typically turbocharged. This also
leads to poor efficiency. There isn't a huge demand for the rotary engine
so not many are made and the cost to make them is more expensive if building
a rotary engine isn't already more costly.