Re: Audi+rotary engines!

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

>On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ti Kan wrote:
>
>> Wankel was the man that invented the rotary engine concept.
>> The first mass produced car with rotary engine was the NSU Ro80.
>> The NSU company was merged with Audi in the 60s.  The rotary engine
>> development program proved to be too expensive at Audi/NSU that
>> they decided to sell the rights to Mazda.
>
>Ah... from PA last year:
>http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~mchang/audi/gallery/nsuro80-small.jpg
>
>Check out an _ancient_ audi.
<looking at the picture>

Well, at least the damn thing came with good headlights.

:)

Brett

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