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  • Citroën GS Birotor. Unstable prodigy
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    Citroën GS Birotor. Unstable prodigy

    Rarely has a car flopped into oblivion so progressively. Perhaps one of the most special Citroëns since ages, yet almost no one knows about its existence anymore. Just like Dries Roelvink, except for that special one. And the Citroën GS Birotor was never available in swimming trunks yellow, Dieu merci. Brown metallic or beige, more choices were […] More

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    rotary engine

    Once the whole world was convinced that the brainchild of Felix Heinrich Wankel (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988), the Wankel engine, would conquer the world, would mean the end of the bouncing piston engines. NOT! And in fact things have already gone wrong with Wankel's Drehkolben engine That […] More

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    A small Mazda with a Wankel engine

    We look under the hood of a Mazda R100 with Wankel engine It was, alfabetic, Alfa Romeo, American Motors, Citroen, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Suzuki and Toyota who were interested in the new technology and concluded contracts with NSU to use the Wankel engine. Rolls Royce did that for […] More