Photo Gallery «The Wankel engine dagger legend»
NSU is regarded as a Wankel pioneer; in the late 1960s, the NSU Ro 80 was as far ahead of the competition as the Citroën DS 19 in the 1950s. But there were problems and the Wankel engine died with the Ro 80 in Germany. Or so they thought. But that's not quite true. The engine was almost resurrected in luxury-class Audi vehicles. The (long) story, shrouded in conspiracy theories and legends, reads almost like a thriller and shows why the board of management made the right decision back then when they abandoned the rotary piston engine. This report summarizes over 20 years of Wankel development and shows it in many pictures that have hardly ever been seen before.
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