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I never knew about the Suzuki RE 5 until today!
Laverda Dave:
--- Quote from: Rozabikes Tim on December 15, 2025, 09:20:21 AM ---Mazda are still at it. Twin rotor rotary hybrid + carbon capture.
Mazda’s done it again: the Vision X-Coupe is a 503bhp rotary-engined concept | Top Gear https://share.google/VXGVingbPbSg7Ew6A
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Nice looking concept Tim. I do like Mazda's and one of the only companies to continue with big block ICE's rather then relying on small 1 litre or less three cylinder engines with a turbo attached to give the same power with a lot less reliability.
Nigel, the sound of that race Mazda, absolute bliss and up there with the V6 Laverda👍
Johnny4428:
Interesting about the rotary engines. There was even one found its way to the Orkney isles back in the day, not sure whatever came of it. There was quite a few R0 80’s around here as we had a local dealer.
Even although we were quite often asked if we Electricity! 😳😂🤣
Laverda Dave:
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on December 14, 2025, 10:02:48 PM ---I was going to mention the Van Veen OCR too Dave :) didn't realise that was the Citröen derived motor though.
There was a Citröen GS prototype rotary lurking in the corner of a garage recently, I think it was on Drew Pritchard car program when he went to by a NSU RO80 ... the owner noted that it was an "escaped" development vehicle.
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You couldn't guess it was a car engine Nigel, they fitted a number of fancy covers over the engine to disguise it's origin's. I remember seeing this bike in a weekly magazine called 'On Two Wheels' back in the mid 70’s when I was a young teenager.
Van Veen rose from the dead a few years ago and made a few more OCR's from spares laying around, they were of course, reassuringly expensive!
Oddjob:
My missus used to work for Mazda and I considered buying an RX8 until the workshop guys told me how much oil the engine used. Around a pint a week with my mileages back then. Oil ain’t cheap these days and its mpg was pretty low as well. I bought a Mazda 3 instead.
Rozabikes Tim:
Just looking at an image of the Van Veen. A bit nicer looking than the Suzuki but that ain't hard
I really struggle with the looks of bikes with more unusual engines than the normal 4 & 2 strokes we know. Don't want to be a luddite but he rotary and latterly electric motors just look bulky, heavy and clumsy to me. Or is it just me? 😳
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