Re: Rotary Engine

[Eric Hegstrom <ehegstrom@domain.elided>]

John,
   I have owned a few RX-7s in my life (4 I think) and even though their
gas mileage was abhorrent when driven hard in the city, I got pretty darn
good mpg when cruising 75 in 5th on a stretch of long desert highway. My
IH can still barely get into the double digits in 5th cruising at 70 on
the same road.

I haven't had one in a couple of years. I have totaled 2 of them (both
totally the other persons fault) and I gave it up cause it seemed to be a
bad trend.

-Eric

John Hofstetter wrote:

> Dan,
> The only two vehicular obsessions that I've had in my life are the
> IHC's and the Mazda Rotaries. I explain the connection by way of their
> gas mileage. Neither ever got many mpg, but I loved both.
> John H.  (who has owned even more Mazda Rotaries than he has IHC's. )
> ----------
> From: owner-ihc-digest@domain.elided (ihc-digest)
> To: ihc-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: ihc-digest V6 #814
> Date: Sat, May 8, 1999, 6:57 AM
>
> Subject: Re: electric car dieing-turbine engines.
>
>    Not to revive a dieing thread, but; since Steve is a week and a
> half
> behind as usual.. <g>
>    What about the Wankle Rotor Engine?
>
> _____Dan Nees_____