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I never knew about the Suzuki RE 5 until today!
K2-K6:
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.
K2-K6:
Speaking of Mazda and their rotary development, along with the sound of a rotary on race pipes.
https://youtu.be/i8wX0V_mwG4?si=6vLaRO-jIk5PrKiE
One of the most spectacular rendition of their quad rotor competition engine that did win Le Mans 24hr race outright.
Up there with a Honda 250-6 for evocative mechanical creation.
Bryanj:
The ones i saw were DKW but known as Herculese everywhere except UK, aparently the Norton was derived from it and it was late 70's
Johnwebley:
Impressive
That Mazda
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Rayzerman:
I was intrigued at the time when the Mazda RX7 was being announced. I couldn't afford it but wanted one.... what killed them was the horrible fuel economy. The RX7 had a 4 barrel carb on it. My sister had a Wankel powered snowmobile back then, I had moved away from home, but found it out behind Dad's shop rusting away. Later a boarder at my Dad's place late 2000's had two green RE5's sitting in the shop. He was saving them for "one day" getting them running. They had the rotary dash. I never was able to see them with power on. I was very interested in having those two bikes, but alas the gent wouldn't part with them.
The local Suzi/Honda dealer has a '76 RE5 .on the showroom floor asking nearly C$16 k for it. 1289 miles on it. Has the standard clocks.
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