My husband belongs to a rotary support group. Every first saturday of the month the group meets. You can easily tell who owns a 2nd gen RX7... ...they are the ones who show up without a rotary powered vehicle.
You claim theyre more reliable that a brit car? Looks like Im going to hafta sell the GT6. I need something that I can DRIVE to shows, not some trailer queen.
Back when my mustang was a 6 cylinder I usta joke with my husband, and well, the "support group." I would tell them that my car was FASTER than an RX7. This was because mine RAN. Those who claim I was a liar because theirs ran, mine was still faster, for it would make it to the finish line while theirs would not.
Not including RX8s (too new) and possibly FDs (3rd gen RX7s) there is not a running rx7 that Ive seen that is still on its original engine. There may be one 10th anniversary I know, but his is more of a show piece. I doubt its has ever reach 100k yet.
Rotary engines are like communism, they are a perfect wonderful concept, but only in theory. In the real world however, such an idea simply does not work.