Originally Posted By: ClubNeon
Felix Wankel, the person who came up with the engine idea was German. He sold the design to NSU (German car maker), who in turn sold it to Mazda.

Oh, Karl Benz, who invented the first flat engine was also German.

We spent all of about 13 seconds on the Wankel rotary engine in high school automotive. Instructor handed out paper on the history of it, showed us the miniature version you could hand crank behind his desk... we all looked puzzled and went back to traditional piston engines.

Bren R.