No More Rotary Engines?

02/21/96

NikkeiNet reported that Mazda Corporation will stop producing rotary engines unless sales prospects for the RX-7 sports car improve. Mazda is currently the only auto manufacturer that produces rotary engines.

Halting production of the special motors would save the corporation an estimated several billion yen a year. They would reassign about 50 positions dedicated to design and development of the engines.

In 1973 Mazda assembled 240,000 rotary engines; last year it only produced 5,000 of them.

Paul Dever -- The Auto Channel

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