Mazda is known for its innovations in mass-produced rotary engines in sports cars like the RX-7, but it wasn't exactly the first to utilize Wankel's design.

Consider also – the Wankel engine, NSU’s baby. (Dr. Felix Wankel started consulting to NSU, at that time the world’s largest maker of motorcycles, in 1951.) ...

The first production car to feature a rotary engine was the NSU Spider, which debuted in 1963 in Europe and the following year in North America.

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Shortly after, in 1951, Wankel partnered with motorcycle and car manufacturer NSU and just six years later he and NSU completed a prototype rotary engine called the DKM.

The German carmaker NSU Motorenwerke last week displayed an ultra-utilitarian sedan that will, it hopes, sire a new generation of automobiles. Called RO 80, the new car has a strange engine under ...

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For a time, the Wankel rotary engine seemed like the future. In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal-combustion production car not ...

The first NSU Prinz was revealed at the 1957 Frankfurt Motor Show, and rolled off the production line the following year as a boxy two-door with a 600cc two cylinder engine.