Yeah, and do sick amounts of RPM, like 18K possibly...

 

and piston engines would be banned from the 24H of Le Mans

 

Some people thrive on controversy.

 

If every manufacturer had been developing the rotary like Mazda, it would have benefited from that fact just like piston engines did. Few have been working on rotary so it has been left to Mazda to make incremental improvements. Something that they can only dedicate a few people and small budget to these days.

And I laugh when people say the rotary is so dirty. The Renesis is a ULEV vehicle, and even previous models are quite clean when they are working properly and not hacked to death. Remember how Mazda was the only manufacturer in the 70s to be ready for the new emissions laws? This was because of the rotary engine.

 

Wow, learned something new today.

 

Once again, Aaron Cake reveals a small part of his vast knowledge of Mazda and the Mazda rotary engine's history. Well done man.

Here is a scan taken from Mazda's Zoom-Zoom magazine.

 

oooh I had no idea it was the first.

Probably due to the thermal reactor though, huh?
>_< [For those that don't know, for a while Mazda used a big exhaust manifold where the exhaust continued to burn after exiting the engine.. But the problem was that the mixture had to be even richer than normal]

 

Didn't they also make a "lean-burn" 12A? Or was that after the RX-3? I get lost when it comes to the 12A. I feel bad... It's a big part of the rotary engine's history, just like the 10A and 10B.