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Old 06-02-2011, 09:16 AM   #10
PhillipM
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Originally Posted by t_g_farrell View Post
I'm going to offer a non-techincal reason for why mazda and various other
makers of rotary products quote displacement the way they do. For the Mazda
case it makes all the 2 rotor engines less that 2 liters in displacment. From a
marketing perspective this is a big win especially in Europe and Japan where
heavy taxes get levied for anything over 2 liters.
It's not that because for taxation reasons it gets classed as a 2.6L anyway...
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