Why Do Rotaries Suck?

[Birds]

Kind of like a 2 stroke

[GT-R32]

HOLD UP. I think I meant 1.3L 360° Wankel. Revs to 8000RPM at output shaft!

[Thelen]

5.2L.. so in other words its about 15L... 15L ought to do 2MW easy

[Peter89]

Fuel efficiency is the biggest failure of the rotary thus the ability to make power from fuel used. No idea how it can be solved, if at all.

[scathing]

Fuel efficiency is the biggest failure of the rotary thus the ability to make power from fuel used. No idea how it can be solved, if at all.

Solution:

[Hank Scorpio]

I quite like my rotor.... that is all.

[Alkatraz]

To be straight up, i own a series 8 RX7 and love it. I have also recently bought a 370gt which I also love although for completely different reasons. Anyone who feels the need to try to prove that one kind of engine is better than the other is simply insecure and in my opinion, not a true car enthusiest. Trying to say that a v8 is always better than a rotary which is better than a v6 is like saying that a blonde is better than a brunette which is better than redhead. Personally I love them all and would never turn down the opertunity to take any of them for a quick spin. ;-)

At the end of the day I think that rotaries have a lot of potential, if they had anywhere near the time and $$$ spent on their development that piston engines have had then who knows what could be produced. I am definitely no master mechanic or an engineer but in my mind the spinning motion of rotary engine is a much more fluid and natural motion than the up/down motion of a piston engine. Take a steam or gas turbine used in power stations as an example, I know that it is completely different but they still use a spinning motion. The largest power stations all use turbines, with internal combustion piston engines only used on smaller stations.

[StevenCJR31]

rotaries dont suck at all. . .mazda has been producing them for 40 odd years and sold millions of them worldwide, must be doing something right

[bozodos]

argh let this thread die already, though some good trolling of [200] was had, teach me not to link my online nick to my real name again in any way loool

[hamiltonau]

yeah as if you would do th...oh crap