New Cars With Rotary Engines
Gateway classic cars has hit gold again with this very nice 1986 mazda rx7 gxl where it has sat for the majority of it life in a garage.
New cars with rotary engines. The company even filed a patent for a new rotary engine earlier this year. Mazda has confirmed its reviving the rotary engine in its electric car thatll go on sale in 2019. By bob sorokanich dec 26 2018. The last production car to use the unique powerplant was the rx 8 and that car was cancelled all the way.
The wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion. The wankel rotary has a lot of drawbacks as a gasoline engine but they become benefits when you switch to hydrogen fuel as mazda did with a limited production rx 8. 121k miles and stated original. All parts rotate in one direction as opposed to the common reciprocating piston engine which has pistons instantly and rapidly changing direction 180 degrees.
It seems like weve been waiting forever for mazda to come out with a new rotary engine. In contrast to the reciprocating piston designs the wankel engine delivers advantages of simplicity smoothness compactness high revolutions per minute and a high power to weight ratio. Rarely does something completely different come along and when it does it usually fails miserably. This new rotary design is called the szorenyi rotary named after the inventor of the engine and partner at reda peter szorenyi.
The wankel engine will apparently appear in mazdas new fully electric car as a range extender in 2019 martijn ten brink mazda europes vp of sales and customer service told dutch. Instantaneous power come from the famous wenkel rotary engine. That is why rotary engine research and development continues today even though there are no rotary powered cars in the current product lineup. The mazda rx vision rotary sports car concept introduces the next generation skyactiv r rotary engine and mazdas vision of the ultimate in front engine rear wheel drive sports car styling.
The history of the automobile has been dominated by vehicles equipped with piston firing engines.