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Old 04-22-05, 11:02 AM
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i had a huge argument about this. no one beleives me that the corvette had a wankle. read below

http://www.monito.com/wankel/corvette.html
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i dunno why u'd have to convince anyone on a rx7 site about this? i thought this was common knowledge among us wankelers
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i'm stuborn. i had a big debate about 9 months or so ago about this. i believe it started on this board but i can't remember.
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I had never heard of this, thanks for the info. A friend of mine is obsessed with Corvettes but hates rotaries so I can't wait to tell him.
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Mercedes did something like that too. I think it was called the C111. It was pretty cool, had gullwing doors. For some reason I think it may have been a 3 or 4 rotor.
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The Mercedes was called the C111 . It was a prototype that was made in a 3 and 4 rotor configuration. here is a link to some more info http://www.monito.com/wankel/mercedes.html
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Originally Posted by Elysian
i dunno why u'd have to convince anyone on a rx7 site about this? i thought this was common knowledge among us wankelers
We just know our history better than the youngens is all.
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yup its true, basically they shunned it though because of the bad mileage if i remember correctly
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If anyone ever read the RX Tuner article, they would know this. I think it's the first part of the Rotary History article.
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Originally Posted by Dan_s_young
yup its true, basically they shunned it though because of the bad mileage if i remember correctly
bad mileage? that's impossible!
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