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>>>>One of the BMW models in the early 70s had six cylinders, but wasn't advertised as "sechszylinder" - it was "sexzylinder" :).
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>>>Yeah, back then they were years ahead of other companies when looking only at the engine - the smallest six cylinder was the 2000 ccm and was for car only 4 m long.
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>>>thomas
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>>Anyone remember this: http://www.citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/wankel/wankel1.html
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>The URL was dead for me but I assume it's about the Wankel rotary engine.
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>Mazda still use it in their cars, don't they? In UK parlance it would be easy to misinterpret the engine as a gadget for, shall we say, men without a female partner :-)

I had a Mazda RX7 with a Wankel engine. Lord, what a dog that thing was. Unless you stomped your foot all the way to the floor it had the acceleration of a caterpillar.