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NSU Ro80 - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio boek over de NSU Ro80 personenwagens met Wankel-motor.

• De 23 artikelen, overgenomen uit toenmalige Britse en Amerikaanse autotijdschriften, geven veel informatie over historie, modelwijzigingen en techniek.
• Ook rij-impressies, tests, vergelijkingstests, technische gegevens, enz.

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NSU Ro 80 - The Complete Story

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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.

NSU Ro 80 - Die Geschichte des Wankelmotors

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De Ro 80 symboliseert de utopie van de jaren 1960 als geen andere auto, maar de aanvankelijke opwinding vervaagde snel. De revolutionaire motor, waarvan het prototype op 13 april 1954 voor het eerst een roterende zuiger had, mislukte door afwijzing van klanten, weerstand van de gevestigde auto-industrie, de crises van die tijd en uiteindelijk door het gebrek aan interesse van de nieuwe eigenaren van NSU in het concept.

Auteur en ooggetuige Dieter Korp creëerde met zijn gedetailleerde documentatie over voorgangers en prototypes, ontwerpstudies en wankelmotor-technologie, samen met tot dan toe ongepubliceerde afbeeldingen, een uitgebreide en unieke NSU Wankel-kroniek.