Metafilter: Piston engine goes boing-boing-boing, but the rotary goes hmmmmmmmm.
Unless you run a Wankel without a muffler. You’ll almost never hear anything louder, outside of an airport jet repair hangar. I owned an RX-7 shortly after my 240Z. NO comparison. The Wankel had no torque, could only summon power at high RPMs, and ate oil like I eat unattended popcorn. No throaty roars, just vibration. Numbing. Driving it in a performance manner took a whole lot more concentration than a comparable piston-engine car. Looked nice (at the time), girls loved it. Suffice it to say in the list of cars I’ve owned it’s one short of the bottom, just above my ‘74 MG Midget.
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