LS-derived three-cylinder radial engine. Not a rotary engine. A radial engine. Like you’d find in a vintage piston-powered aircraft. And moreover, it has GM LS1 DNA, too—inside the custom ...

Sounds like a challenge to us. The 2014 Nissan ZEOD RC, the experimental race car inspired by the original DeltaWing that used the three-cylinder engine. Nissan RML managed to build such a power ...

This was the first working engine design that did not use pistons, valves, and cylinders ... the first rotary available was the RX-2 in 1971, followed by the RX-3 and RX-4. It was also at this ...

These engines do not use reciprocating pistons that travel back and forth within a cylinder ... many affordable rotary vehicles to the U.S. These included the RX-2, RX-3, RX-4, and the much ...

Furthermore, the pistons moving up and down in a conventional engine create enormous shaking forces, something best dealt with by increasing cylinder count. A rotary ... Mazda RX-3, the first ...

along with all the additional moving parts in the cylinder head(s), means there's a lot more noise and vibration produced by a piston engine as compared to a rotary engine. See All 8 Photos The ...