The NSU Ro80 was one of the most advanced cars ever built, featuring a smooth Wankel rotary engine, semi-automatic ...

CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. -- Back when Wankel rotary engines held promise for the future, it wasn't just Mazda in Japan that was pioneering them. Along came NSU in Germany. In 1967, NSU was selling the ...

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, a German book salesman named Felix Wankel entertained a revolutionary, if not heretical notion: he fell to wondering if the standard gasoline engine, man’s commonest prime mover ...

A Wankel engine is a type of rotary engine, but not all rotary engines are Wankel engines. Wrapping your mind around this idea will help you to better understand the similarities as well as the ...

Back in 1965, Autocar began road test number 2043 by pondering what newfangled contraption would replace the internal combustion engine, much as we so often do today. We were reviewing the NSU Wankel ...

Developing a gasoline-powered rotary engine was a dream for Felix Wankel, and we mean that literally. Some steam engines worked on the same basic principle as far back as the 18th century, but the ...