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Re:Kenichi Yamamoto has died by busterarm on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:56PM (#16063225)
Right. The lack of of a rotary Mazda on the market right now is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation. It is a good thing, but we are poorer some damn fun cars because of it. That said, you're not really going to truly enjoy it east of the Mississippi anyway...

Disclosure: RX-7 owner.

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Re:Kenichi Yamamoto has died by flavio81 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:05PM (#16063979)
>is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation.

Why? I thought the latest Mazda rotary engines were of very low emissions.

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Re:Kenichi Yamamoto has died by mikepurvis on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:16PM (#16064079)
Not really; they're burning oil all the time because the seals need to be actively lubricated. And to the extent that "low emissions" can be claimed, it's achieved by burning the uncombusted fuel in the exhaust stream, which is cool but horrendously inefficient.

Then again, who knows: http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/14064/mazda-confirms-rotary...

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Re:Kenichi Yamamoto has died by Grazester on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:18PM (#16064104)
No and this may be inherently due to the rotary engines design.
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Re:Kenichi Yamamoto has died by faultyerwin on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:10PM (#16064574)
> Right. The lack of of a rotary Mazda on the market right now is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation.

I've heard that many RX-8s didn't keep factory spec after relatively short period of usage. They require also quite often (every 30-40000 km) the change of apex seals.

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