A phychological condition rendering the victim unable to purchase a vehicle not powered by a Rotary engine. Many people with Wankelitis are Mazda fans. Severe cases may cause ranting on the ininefficiencies of the 4-Stroke Engine.
Because of my Wankelitis, I'm buying a MazdaRX-7 FD.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)