Monday, February 11, 2008

Mazda celebrates 40th anniversary rotary in new RX-8

Mazda celebrates 40th anniversary rotary in new RX-8
Copyright © 2008 David Goodspeed. Visit the original article at http://www.geardiary.com/2008/02/11/mazda-celebrates-40th-anniversary-rotary-in-new-rx-8/. digital-fingerprint@geardiary.com As a youth in the mid-70s, I remember those clear-view cutaway models of the inner workings of the Mazda rotary engine when the Japanese automaker began perfecting that technology for mass production in the automotive environment. Apparently the rotary concept has been around [...] Copyright � 2008 David Goodspeed. Visit the original article at http://www.geardiary.com/2008/02/11/mazda-celebrates-40th-anniversary-rotary-in-new-rx-8/.

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As a youth in the mid-70s, I remember those clear-view cutaway models of the inner workings of the Mazda rotary engine when the Japanese automaker began perfecting that technology for mass production in the automotive environment. Apparently the rotary concept has been around for centuries but Mazda engineers are credited with perfecting it for the masses.

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