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Rotary

A type of petrol engine designed by German engineer Felix Wankel and now only made by Mazda for use in the RX-8 sportscar.

Rather than conventional cylinders with pistons, the rotary engine’s cylinder chamber is a large oval, in which a triangular-shaped rotor oscillates.

The RX-8 engine has two such chambers.

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