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Mazda's Famed Rotary Engines Roll to End of Road This Month

Posted June 28, 2012 8:20 AM

From Autos Insider RSS from The Detroit News:

Many people of a certain age remember Mazda Motor Corp.'s catchy ads from the'70s. "Piston engines go boing-boing," they said. "Mazda goes hummmm." The voiceover sang: "There's nothing like it on the road today; the rotary engine is here to stay." Wrong.

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Re: Mazda's Famed Rotary Engines Roll to End of Road This Month

06/29/2012 8:14 AM

I owned a RX-7, fast little pocket rocket. Only replaced the apex seals once in 100K miles. Gas mileage,forget it.

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