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Mazda wasn’t the first manufacturer to offer a rotary-engined car; that title falls to NSU, with its Spider of 1964.
But Mazda does have the honour of making far more rotary-engined cars than anybody else, the company sticking with the technology for decades after everybody else had given up.
But it’s already five years since it built its last. The question is – have we seen the last of rotary engines in production cars, or does the technology have a future?