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Yea - I caught wind of this a few weeks ago and was just waiting for the press release to confirm it. Its not all that bad though... 7 years was enough to "test the waters" to see if a market still existed. Also, the process of changing over production plants to the new 16x will take a bit of time compared to the 13b they've been producing for how many decades now?
I'm sure we'll see another rotary car from Mazda. I think we'll probably get one "traditional" model and that'll be the end... the rest of the focus will go into hybrid rotary technologies most likely.
Besides, with Audi now getting back into the rotary game too... who knows what will happen. If Mercedes catches wind of any possible niche market Audi creates, you'll be sure they'll dust off their old Wankel patents as well and start looking it. That'll be three manufacturers pushing rotary technology... that only means we get better stuff!!
Sorry... thats my rant...
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