In 1954, Wankel finished designing a rotary piston engine for NSU known as the Drehkolbenmotor (or the DKM). This ...

Working together, Wankel and NSU created a full working prototype, the DKM, which was the first ever rotary engine. Just a year later, in 1958, the second prototype rotary engine was finished.

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles ... Work on the engine resumed in 1951 with funding from NSU Motorenwerke AG. The first working prototype was produced in 1957.

But where lies the truth? Was the rotary engine a motoring dead end, or should it have been given another chance? In the early 1960s Mazda and NSU joined forces to further develop the rotary ...

Though the company is often remembered for the pioneering work it performed on the Wankel rotary engine, NSU first rose to fame after World War II with a range of innovative small-displacement ...

The Wankel engine, pioneered in this same period by the German automaker NSU. Mazda's Wankel rotary engine is one of the most iconic ever fitted to a road car, and this is why it should return to ...

Mazda had an interest in this unconventional engine design from the beginning, partnering with NSU which in turn made Felix Wankel’s dream of a rotary engine a reality. When NSU, which was owned ...