what other car manufacturers made rotary cars Im fairly new to this so all I know of is: NSU & Mazda

I know there had to be others but I just cant find anything about anything on the internet.



any input at all would be aprecciated


thanks

 

Suzuki, Hercules, and Norton all made motorcycles. GM had a prototype rotary Corvette and Ford had a rotary Mustang prototype.

 

Curtus Wright (aircraft manufacturer) made them and supplied the one for the Mustang mentioned above. Lauda (Russian) made them. GM invested heavily into the Rotary. Toyota apparently made a very good rotary engine, but couldn't sell it because it infringed on certain patents it didn't have the rights to. Mercedes had a free license from NSU and did some pretty substatial development and created a few incredible prototypes. There were lots of rotary license holders (pretty much every company out there), but many of them didn't do much with their licenses.

 

Citroen made a production rotary car.

 

If you want to know more about who is who on the rotary market: www.der-wankelmotor.de
It's a German site, but you'll be abl to find a lot of info and pics on the different cars/bikes/boats etc using Wankel engines.
For your info: NSU made the first production car, the Wankelspider. Mazda had the first 2 rotor production car ready (Cosmo 110) but officially the NSU Ro80 is the first 2 rotor production car, as Mazda had to keep their car on hold, due to license reasons.
The Citroën M35 was a prototype for their later Wankel-powered car: the GS Birotor. The Birotor used the same engine as the Ro80, build by "Comotor", which was a joint-venture between NSU and Citroën.
Mercedes-Benz never produced Wankel-powered cars, but had some really awesome cars build. The C111 was on display last year (Wankeltreffen Lahr, 100 years Felix Wankel) and it still looks awesome.
Others include DDR (eastern Germany) companies, who wanted to use a rotary in their new Trabants. Because of the fall of the Berlin wall, and resulting political reforms, the new Trabant was never build.
I believe you can find about any Wankelpowered car on the site I mentioned, just have a look!

 

Thanks u guys thats exactkly what i was lookin for, I just love thesse engines and I want to know as much about them as I can.

Thanks again

 

here is a neat looking NSU on e bay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2431874145&category=64 72