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#11
August 22nd 07, 03:50 PM
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:23:43 GMT, against all advice, something
compelled "Norman Naps" >, to say: > tHIS IS ROTary No, *gUVF* VF EBGnel -- Life is too short to play cheap guitars. 
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#12
August 23rd 07, 02:12 PM
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"Dave LaCourse" > wrote in message
news  > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:38:45 GMT, "Norman Naps" > > > wrote: > >>Decided to go rotary on a quattro. > > Huh? You're gonna take out a German engineered engine and put > in a > rotary engine? Why on earth would you even *think* of doing > such a > foolish thing. Methinks this is some sort of troll by you. > Wot? Erm - Audi DOES have history, of sorts, with the Wankel engine! The NSU RO80 used a Wankel, in the early 1970s. <nerd mode on> NSU, along with Horch, DKW, Wanderer and Audi - were part of the original Auto Union, which went on to simply become Audi. <nerd mode off> -- Sean '07 Audi B7 RS4, '06 Golf V GTI 2.0T FSI DSG, '03 Audi B6 S4 v8 (gone), '99 Astra 1.8 Sport (gone), '99 Honda CBR6FX
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#13
August 23rd 07, 03:58 PM
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LeakiestWink wrote:
> "Dave LaCourse" > wrote in message > news >> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:38:45 GMT, "Norman Naps" >> > >> wrote: >> >>> Decided to go rotary on a quattro. >> Huh? You're gonna take out a German engineered engine and put >> in a >> rotary engine? Why on earth would you even *think* of doing >> such a >> foolish thing. Methinks this is some sort of troll by you. >> Wot? > > > Erm - Audi DOES have history, of sorts, with the Wankel engine! > > The NSU RO80 used a Wankel, in the early 1970s. > > <nerd mode on> NSU, along with Horch, DKW, Wanderer and Audi - > were part of the original Auto Union, which went on to simply > become Audi. <nerd mode off> > And the Ro80 was apparently a cracker in many ways, however, the rotary engine was it's weak point at the time, in reliability terms. I still call troll though.
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#14
August 24th 07, 05:15 PM
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:12:08 +0100, "LeakiestWink"
> wrote: >Audi DOES have history, of sorts, with the Wankel engine! History, yes. Current production, no. Dave RS6
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#15
August 24th 07, 05:31 PM
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Dave LaCourse wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:12:08 +0100, "LeakiestWink" > > wrote: > >> Audi DOES have history, of sorts, with the Wankel engine! > > History, yes. Current production, no. > > Dave > RS6 > > Ah yes. The NSU Ro 80.
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