What other regular production cars have had rotary engines?
NSU beat Toyo Kogyo to the punch by several years, with two models, the Sport Spyder, and the Ro80. The first production Mazda rotary was the 1967 110S Cosmo Sport. Mazda Rotary models exported, and model year first sold in the US were: 1970 R-100 (Japanese Familia) 1971 RX-2 (Japanese & Australian Capella) 1972 RX-3 (Japanese Savanna) 1974 RX-4 (Japanese Luce) 1974 REPU (Rotary Engine Pick-Up, manufactured only for export to the US market) 1976 Cosmo (RX-5 in some markets, e.g. Australia) 1979 RX-7 (Represents first use of an RX- moniker in the Japanese market) 2004 RX-8 Note that the RX-7 and RX-8 are the seventh and eighth on this list of eight. In Japan, Mazda sold the Parkway Rotary 26 bus. In other markets, as well as Japan, Mazda has sold the R-130 Luce, the Roadpacer, and subsequent generation HB & JC Cosmos. In the US from model years 1970-1978, most Mazdas sold were equipped with rotary engines. The main exceptions were the RX-3, instead equipped with boingers & different tri
