The Alfa Romeo engine you’ve never heard about
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3 min readJul 10, 2020
During the entire Sixties decade, the rotary engine as conceptualized by the German inventor Felix Wankel and developed by NSU became something of the auto industry’s darling: compact, light, powerful yet smooth, and made of few moving parts, it looked like the way of the future. No car company wanted to risk being left behind, so pretty much every automaker licensed the Wankel and NSU patents to start their…
