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Correction, Dr. Felix Wankel was the inventor of the ROTARY engine in the 1950's!!
Dr. Felix Wankel was the inventor of the ROTARY engine in the 1950's!!
wankel by BIGCHUBBAY May 13, 2005
A Rotary engine of extreme perfection which has been tested to speeds in excess of 18000 rpm
the main component is a triangular driver, with three hardened rounded tips which rotate against a stater type outer cylinder.
Masda have the monopoly on them and use them on the RX range.
Earlier engines suffered from burnt out tips.
My new Mazda RX8 will eat your Porsche for breakfast then spit it back out because it will have discovered that it had just eaten a jumped up VW beetle that Hitler commissioned...eeeegh!
oooh i love my wankel.
wankel by murphycat18 September 26, 2008
ReCorrection: Felix Wankel invented A PISTONLESS ROTARY ENGINE, now known as the Wankel engine. It is a perfection of the original rotary engines, mainly used in airplanes. He did not invent the rotary engine, the same way that the Kimberly-Clark corporation (makers of the Kleenex) did not invent blowing your nose into something.
The Wankel under the hood of his Mazda broke down.
wankel by Epsilon Rho Tau Omega March 22, 2010
Name - Dr. Felix Wankel perfected the rotary engine.
Dr. Felix Wankel perfected the rotary engine.
wankel by James October 20, 2003
Masturbating with your pants or undies around your ankles.
Alice wankeled for several hours before authorities made it through her steel door.
Wankel by Hobarto May 16, 2019

Wankel Rotary Engine 

An ingenious engine design which avoids the reciprocal motion of the piston engine and manages to incorporate the suck, squeeze, bang, blow of internal combustion engines into a rotating piston.

Not a torture device of any kind.
The Wankel rotary engine is far more efficient than the latest hybrid cars, but nobody will buy one because it sounds too much like "wanker".
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