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• Comotor
  ...[Citroën]], created in Luxembourg in April 1967. Its goal was to produce [[Wankel engine]]s. ...Comobil''' subsidiary, focusing on the development of the engines. Comotor engines were used by the [[Citroën M35]] and by the [[Citroën GS#GS Birotor|GS Bi
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• Jonova engine
  [[Category:Engines]] [[Category:Vehicles with Wankel engine]]
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• Felix Wankel
  ...ctober 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and the inventor of the [[Wankel engine]]. ...was able to teach himself technical subjects and conceived the idea of the Wankel engine in 1924.
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• RKM engine
  ...ag, Berlin 2008 </ref> The machine's inventor is Boris I. Schapiro, along with co-inventors Lev B. Levitin and Naum Kruk. ...ng a rotary motion. The piston has an appropriately shaped aperture fitted with a gear structure, and this drives the power shaft (or two power shafts in s
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• Petrol engine
  ...'gasoline engine''' in North America) is an [[internal combustion engine]] with [[spark-ignition engine|spark-ignition]], designed to run on petrol ([[gaso ...air are usually pre-mixed before compression (although some modern petrol engines now use cylinder-direct petrol injection).
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...ed '''rotary pistons'''. An example of a pistonless rotary engine is the [[Wankel engine]]. ...Engines, which produces a Wankel model airplane engine, refer to it as a ''wankel rotary engine''.
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• Atkinson cycle
  ...han the compression stroke, the engine can achieve greater efficiency than with the Otto cycle engine. While Atkinson's original engine design is no more == Modern "Atkinson-cycle" engines ==
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• NSU
  ...oduced the famous Kettenkrad, the NSU HK101, a [[half-track]]ed motorcycle with the engine of the [[Opel]] Olympia. ...irector Walter Egon Niegtsch, who earlier in his career had spent 17 years with [[Opel]].<ref name=DasAuto01/>
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• Mazda R100
  |Engine = 0.9 litre (984 cc) ''[[Mazda Wankel engine#0820|0820]]'' Two-rotor Wankel engine ...m the [[Mazda Familia|Familia]] and the [[Wankel engine|rotary]] ''[[Mazda Wankel engine#0820|0820]]'' engine similar to the one used in the [[Mazda Cosmo#Se
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• Power-to-weight ratio
  ...sources. It is also used a measure of performance of a vehicle as a whole, with the engine's power output being divided by the curb weight of the car, to g ...lity to operate at very high speeds. For example, the Space Shuttle's main engines use turbopumps (machines consisting of a pump driven by a turbine engine) t
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• Mazda JC Cosmo
  ...azda to use a triple-rotor engine. The car was a 2+2 coupe and was loaded with power amenities. An electronically controlled 4-speed [[automatic transmis ...ries Cosmo set several firsts in Automotive history. Its 13B-REW + 20B-REW engines were the first series production twin sequential turbo systems to be offere
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• Wankel engine
  The '''Wankel engine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]] which uses a [[rotary The engine was invented by German engineer [[Felix Wankel]]. He began its development in the early 1950s at [[NSU Motorenwerke AG]] (
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• NSU Ro 80
  | 1967-1977 with 37,204 examples | Wankel 995cc
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...which uses hydrogen]as its primary source of power for locomotion. These vehicles generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or [[fuel-cell * In combustion, the hydrogen is "burned" in engines in fundamentally the same method as traditional gasoline cars.
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...space called a combustion chamber. This exothermic reaction of a [[fuel]] with an oxidizer creates gases of high temperature and pressure, which are permi This contrasts with [[external combustion engine]]s such as [[steam engine]]s which use the com
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• AutoVAZ
  ...the world as '''[[Lada]]''' was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with [[Fiat]]. ...66 [[Fiat 124]] and introduced in 1970, are still the cars most associated with its [[Lada]] brand.
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• Engine displacement
  ...th a 2.8 litre engine and Nissan's [[Nissan Teana|Teana 350JM]] is a Teana with a 3498cc (213.5 CID) [[Nissan VQ engine#VQ35DE|engine]]. Motorcycles are of ...till given by many manufacturers in cubic inch displacement (usually along with cc; e.g. the 6.1&nbsp;L HEMI's published displacement is 370.0&nbsp;CID/6,0
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• Mazda 929
  sometimes shared it's chassis with the rotary [[Mazda Luce]]. Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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• Supercharger Engine
  .... [[Supercharged Engine|Superchargers]] are generally the reason why tuned engines have a distinct high-pitched whine upon acceleration. A car that signifies *Wankel
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• VTEC
  ...and duration settings would result in insufficient filling of the cylinder with fuel and air at high RPM, thus greatly limiting engine power output. Conve ...ps/liter or more while maintaining practicality for use in mass production vehicles. Some later variations of the system were designed solely to provide improv
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