NSU Ro 80: książki - historia, typy i technika

NSU Ro80

Brooklands Portfolio book about the NSU Ro80 passenger cars with Wankel-engine.

• The 23 articles, taken from contemporary British and American car magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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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Ro 80 symbolizuje utopię lat 60. jak żaden inny samochód, ale początkowy entuzjazm szybko zgasł. Rewolucyjny silnik, którego prototyp po raz pierwszy zastosował obrotowy tłok 13 kwietnia 1954 roku, nie odniósł sukcesu z powodu odrzucenia przez klientów, oporu ze strony tradycyjnego przemysłu motoryzacyjnego, kryzysów tamtych czasów i ostatecznie braku zainteresowania nowego właściciela NSU tym pomysłem.

Autor i świadek Dieter Korp stworzył kompleksową i unikalną kronikę Wankla NSU, z bogatą dokumentacją dotyczącą poprzedników i prototypów, studiów projektowych i technologii silnika rotacyjnego, wraz z wcześniej niepublikowanymi zdjęciami.