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Originally Posted by almightybmw

I love rotaries. Shame the design behind them doesn't match the engineering, otherwise they'd be much better FE wise. Still fairly impressive power output from such a small displacement.

You have to be really careful using the term "rotary" to describe Wankel engines... yes, they're rotaries, but there are quite a few rotary type engines in use in the world, and it's easily mistakable.

That said, wankels burn oil. LOL. That's why the Renesis engine from Mazda "needs" to use a special type of oil that has less negative effects on combustion. It's a finer oil, and costs (or used to cost) more per quart than the standard "quickie lube" oil change.

When I worked for Sears, we refused any RX-8 that came in for service, and my manager would only accept an RX-7 if I was working that day, since noone else knew anything about them.