2003 Engine Of The Year!
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http://www.ukintpress.com/engineoftheyear/ieoty.html
"Felix Wankel, pioneer of the rotary engine, Kenichi Yamamoto, the first head of Mazda’s RE (Rotary Engine) Research Department in 1963, and Nobuhiro Hayama, today’s general manager of Mazda global powertrain activities: the names are synonymous with rotary engines and, now, the International Engine of the Year 2003, the RENESIS Rotary.
The achievement is against all the odds: rotary engines had been dismissed by many – including Europe’s emission legislators, who banished Mazda’s last Wankel, the 13B-REW, from its markets in the last decade – as too inefficient, too polluting.
However, the Japanese car maker has bounced back in tremendous style, the 2003 RENESIS gathering 316 points, some 72 more than the second-placed Volkswagen. Indeed, 44 of the panel of 50 judges voted for the RENESIS to take the most prestigious Awards title – a massive endorsement of Mazda’s efforts with this unconventional engine."
http://www.ukintpress.com/engineoftheyear/ieoty.html
"Felix Wankel, pioneer of the rotary engine, Kenichi Yamamoto, the first head of Mazda’s RE (Rotary Engine) Research Department in 1963, and Nobuhiro Hayama, today’s general manager of Mazda global powertrain activities: the names are synonymous with rotary engines and, now, the International Engine of the Year 2003, the RENESIS Rotary.
The achievement is against all the odds: rotary engines had been dismissed by many – including Europe’s emission legislators, who banished Mazda’s last Wankel, the 13B-REW, from its markets in the last decade – as too inefficient, too polluting.
However, the Japanese car maker has bounced back in tremendous style, the 2003 RENESIS gathering 316 points, some 72 more than the second-placed Volkswagen. Indeed, 44 of the panel of 50 judges voted for the RENESIS to take the most prestigious Awards title – a massive endorsement of Mazda’s efforts with this unconventional engine."
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Originally Posted by relisys190' date='Jun 4 2003, 06:00 PM
it's a good thing mazda decided to hold on-to the right's of the rotary engine
In the wrong hands (ford) the engine surely would have gone under.
-=Markus
In the wrong hands (ford) the engine surely would have gone under.
-=Markus
