1973 Mazda RX3 - Revived Rotary

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1973 Mazda RX3 - Revived Rotary

<dt><b>1973 Mazda RX3 - Revived Rotary</b><br /><img src="http://image.superstreetonline.com/f/features/1310_1973_mazda_rx3/52354751+ppromo_large/1973-mazda-RX-3-shaved-bumper.jpg" onerror="javascript:this.src='http://static.superstreetonline.com/_SiteConfigs/_global/images/no_photo_100px.gif'" alt="1973 Mazda RX3 - Super Street Magazine" /><br /><a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/1310_1973_mazda_rx3/">A radical Rotary for the banks!</a><p>The world’s car companies’ great drive to Wankel-style rotary engines in the 1960s and early ‘70s was massiveâ€"and largely a dead end. NSU, the company that created the Wankel, won plaudits with its rotary-powered business-class Ro80 sedan, but fell into VW’s hands when warranty costs over failing engines drove them out of solvency. Citroen found a way to get their cars to fall apart even more quickly by installing a Wankel engine under the hood. Ford’s experiments with Curtiss-Wright rotary power went nowhere. GM spent more than a billion dollars (a lot of money today, and an awful lot more 40 years ago) developing their own rotary when emissions issues, reliability with housings and rotor tips, oil burning and excess fuel consumption killed the project outright. You’d think that the engineering world hadn’t been equipped to solve the rotary engine’s myriad problems.</p> a <br /> Photo Gallery: <a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/1310_1973_mazda_rx3/">1973 Mazda RX3 - Super Street Magazine</a><br /><br /> Photo Gallery: <a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/1310_1973_mazda_rx3/">1973 Mazda RX3 - Super Street Magazine</a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/1310_1973_mazda_rx3/">1973 Mazda RX3 - Revived Rotary</a> |
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