NSU Ro 80: Bücher - Geschichte, Typen und Technik

NSU Ro 80 - Die Geschichte des Wankelmotors

NEU

Der Ro 80 symbolisiert wie kein anderes Auto die Utopie der 1960er Jahre, doch seine anfängliche Begeisterung verflog schnell. Der revolutionäre Motor, dessen Prototyp am 13. April 1954 erstmals einen rotierenden Kolben hatte, scheiterte an der Ablehnung der Kunden, dem Widerstand der etablierten Autoindustrie, den Krisen der Zeit und schließlich daran, dass die neuen NSU-Eigentümer kein Interesse an dem Konzept zeigten.

Autor und Zeitzeuge Dieter Korp hat mit seiner detaillierten Dokumentation über Vorläufer und Prototypen, Designstudien und Kreiskolben-Technik sowie mit bis dahin unveröffentlichtem Bildmaterial eine umfassende und einzigartige NSU-Wankel-Chronik geschaffen.

Autor:	Dieter Korp
Ausführung:	264 Seiten, 27 x 23.5 x 2.1 cm, gebunden
Abbildungen:	300 farbige und s/w-Abbildungen
Verlag:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2024)
ISBN:	9783613046481

NSU Ro80

Brooklands Portfolio Buch über die NSU Ro80 Personenwagen mit Wankel-Motor.

• Die 23 Artikel aus britischen und amerikanischen Autozeitschriften von damals bieten viele Informationen über Geschichte, Modellwechsel und Techik.
• Auch Fahrimpressionen, Tests, Vergleichstests, technische Daten, usw.

Ausführung:	92 Seiten, 27 x 20.5 x 0.5 cm, kartoniert
Abbildungen:	200 Fotos und Zeichnungen
Verlag:	Brooklands Books (GB, 1999)
ISBN:	9781855204089

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NSU Ro 80 - The Complete Story

NEU

Launched in 1967, the NSU Ro80 had modern aerodynamic styling, a technologically advanced Wankel rotary engine and was voted Car of the Year in 1968. However, after the initial positive reception, the car developed a reputation for unreliability, with problems arising as early as 15,000 miles and many vehicles required a rebuilt engine before 30,000 miles.
Despite the company resolving these reliability issues in both existing and new vehicles, and offering a generous warranty, the damage to the car's reputation was done.

The NSU Ro80 is the most celebrated motoring lost cause of the second half of the twentieth century, outranking the likes of the Edsel and the DeLorean because, unlike those statements of misplaced optimism and ego, it was a good car. Not just good: the NSU Ro80 is one of the great saloons. Launched in September 1967, the Ro80 was an all-new four-door five-seater from a West German company that - post-war - had never made anything other than economy runabouts, motorcycles and mopeds.

That alone should have been enough of a risk, but this was also the world's first purpose-built Wankel-engined family saloon. This compact, refined and elegantly simple power unit was the first really new concept in the realm of internal combustion engines to achieve mass production for ninety years.
A car like the Ro80 could only really have come from Germany, where there was a passion for research and a pride in engineering not found elsewhere in Europe. With front-wheel drive, superb power steering and four-wheel disc brakes, the car had top handling and driver appeal. Quite simply, it was a masterpiece, considered by many to be the finest vehicle of its type in the world. But with one fatal flaw: its engine.
With over 300 archive photographs, drawings and diagrams, this book tells the story of the NSU.

Autor:	Martin Buckley
Ausführung:	176 Seiten, 26 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm, gebunden
Abbildungen:	300+ farbige und s/w-Abbildungen
Verlag:	The Crowood Press Ltd (GB, 2023)
Serie:	The Complete Story
ISBN:	9780719841743