Re: Rotary Engine

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

>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

This is getting kinda funny. Yeah, I've had MACs and Binders for a long
time, too.  Also drove an RX -3 wagon to death. How many others here have
had Alfas and / or Jags in the past??

Regards, Greg
>
>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_____