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{{a|metaphor|[[File:Two wankel.png|thumb|center|450px|The unique, and unscorable, Mazda RX-3]]}} | {{a|metaphor|[[File:Two wankel.png|thumb|center|450px|The unique, and unscorable, Mazda RX-3]]}}The “okay so how am I meant to deal with ''this''?” situation. Named after the Rotary Mazda RX-3 in [[Top Trumps]] — a hair-dresser supercar, I am told — that doesn’t seem to be comparable in any meaningful way in the engine category, with any other card in the pack. So who wins? Search me. | ||
The “okay so how am I meant to deal with ''this''?” situation. Named after the Rotary Mazda RX-3 in [[Top Trumps]] — a hair-dresser supercar, I am told — that doesn’t seem to be comparable in any meaningful way in the engine category, with any other card in the pack. So who wins? Search me. | |||
:'''Dealer''': ''(Triumphantly slapping down a [[Rover 3500 Van den Plas]])'' Cylinders: V-EIGHT! BEAT THAT, SUCKER!!! | :'''Dealer''': ''(Triumphantly slapping down a [[Rover 3500 Van den Plas]])'' Cylinders: V-EIGHT! BEAT THAT, SUCKER!!! | ||
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This dilemma comes from a time before the Internet, when [[boredom]] was a priced-in feature of every adolescent life, and not just those of office workers. | This dilemma comes from a time before the Internet, when [[boredom]] was a priced-in feature of every adolescent life, and not just those of office workers. | ||
===The Wankel engine: a brief primer=== | |||
Designed in 1951 by Felix Wankel, the Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine that converts pressure into rotating motion through an eccentric rotary design. Compared to a normal piston engine of similar power, it is lighter, smaller, generates more torque and vibrates less. | |||
But its odd-shaped combustion chamber made it less efficient, and sometimes unburnt fuel would escape, creating a satisfying (for the driver) and annoying and somewhat alarming (for passers-by) tendency to backfire. | |||
Alas, emitting exploding petrol from your exhaust pipe wasn’t in the EU’s wheelhouse, and Wankel engines were been basically banned in Europe after 2010. | |||
===Finbarr Saunders=== | ===Finbarr Saunders=== | ||