On 25/04/14 12:24, Clive George wrote:
On 25/04/2014 12:14, Rick Hughes wrote:

Maybe it will never be adopted, I had a rotary engine in my RX8 ....
fantastic piece of engineering, so small so powerful, incredible rev
range, just just not taken off with anybody other than Mazda.

How efficient was it? What were service intervals like compared to a
conventional engine? How long would it last before a rebuild? An engine
needs to do well at these as well as size and power in order to be truly
successful.

+1 TCO

Total Cost of Ownership.

And of course that includes tooling up to make them



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