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Archive Home > 2012 > June > 29 > Mazda will stop using rotary engines

Mazda will stop using rotary engines

By Anna Mukai / The Bulletin
June 29, 2012

TOKYO — Many people of a certain age remember Mazda’s catchy ads from the 1970s. “Piston engines go boing-boing,” they said. “Mazda goes hummm.” The voiceover sang: “There’s nothing like it on the road today; the rotary engine is here to stay.”

Wrong.

The last Mazda using the rotary, which won....

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