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    the car above the engine. The NSU Spider is the first series production car powered by a Wankel rotary engine. In the Spider, a KKM 502 single-rotor engine...
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    the "Motor nach System NSU/Wankel". At the 1963 IAA motor show in Frankfurt, the NSU company presented the NSU Wankel-Spider, the first consumer vehicle...
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    1958. In 1963, NSU produced the first series-production Wankel engine for a car, the KKM 502 (see Figure 6.). It was used in the NSU Spider sports car, of...
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    production continued until 1968. NSU's last production motorcycle was the Quick 50. In 1964, NSU offered the world's first Wankel engined car: the Wankelspider...
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    Germany: Podszun Verlag. ISBN 3923448368. Myhr, Claus (1989). NSU Ro 80 + Wankel Spider 1964–77. Schrader-Motor-Chronik, no. 35 (in German). München:...
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  • Claus Luthe (category NSU Motorenwerke)
    first designs at NSU were the second-generation NSU Prinz 4 and the NSU Wankel Spider. The Prinz had a distinct resemblance to its contemporary Chevrolet...
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    claimed. From late 1962 a 598 cc (36.5 cu in) engine was fitted. The NSU Spider was a Wankel rotary powered two-seater roadster based on the Sport Prinz platform...
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  • contact with engines and vehicles since his childhood, as his parents ran an NSU and Mercedes workshop in Stuttgart Weilimdorf. Eventually, he learned and...
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    then focused on new rotary engines based on the ideas of Felix Wankel. In 1967, the new NSU Ro 80 was a car well ahead of its time in technical details such...
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  • Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf (category NSU Motorenwerke)
    Retrieved 6 December 2015. "Wankel-Spider". Günter Reichert iA Der-Wankelmotor.de. Retrieved 6 December 2015. "Autocar Road Test NSU Ro80 1,990 c.c. (nominal):...
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    (Developed from Scaglione design but built in his absence): NSU Prinz Sport spider Wankel (prototype 1960, produced from 1963) Maserati 3500 GT coupé Bertone...
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  • Garside, who had been impressed by the Fichtel & Sachs engine in both the NSU Spider sports-car and a snowmobile, installed a bought-in F&S air-cooled single-rotor...
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    single-rotor Comotor Wankel engine, as also seen in the NSU Spider. A twin-rotor version of this engine reached production form with the NSU Ro 80 and GS Birotor...
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    Mazda Cosmo (category Cars powered by Wankel engines)
    intended for export) was (along with the NSU Ro80) one of the first production cars to feature a 2-rotor Wankel engine. A prototype was presented at the...
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  • (Germany) Wankel engines First Wankel engine – 1964 NSU Spider First front-wheel-drive car with Wankel engine – 1966 NSU Ro 80 First 2-rotor Wankel engine...
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    included the Tucker, Volkswagen Beetle, Porsche 356, Chevrolet Corvair, NSU Prinz, ZAZ Zaporozhets and Hino Contessa. Examples of modern combustion engine...
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    Hino Contessa Mercedes-Benz 130/150/170H Mitsubishi i and Mitsubishi i-MiEV NSU Prinz Porsche 356, 911 generations, and 959 Puma (car manufacturer) Renault...
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    gave made them a worthwhile addition for some drivers. For the Wankel powered NSU Spider of 1964, Bosch resurrected its thyratron method for a CD ignition...
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  • firms. In 1974, VAZ was given permission to begin producing Wankel engines under licence from NSU. Work began in 1976, with a single-rotor Lada appearing...
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  • Wrangler 5 - 1957-1962 Fiat Jolly 1-9 "Wankels and Wankers" August 25, 2008 1 - 2006-2008 Mazda RX-8 2 - 1967-1977 NSU Ro80 3 - 1970 Chevrolet Corvette Mark...
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  • from the original on January 17, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2010. "UAV Wankel Engines". O.S. Engines. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved...
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  • much more advanced. It was exported all over the world and produced at the NSU factory in Germany, Steyr-Puch in Austria and Simca in France. It was facelifted...
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