Mopar Muscle Association UK

Very very unusual and interesting ex-GM show car this.

Made in Italy in steel on a shortened and widened Porsche chassis and fitted with an experimental mid-mounted GM rotary engine.

Brilliant post Daveman
I actually saw that car at Earls Court Motorshow, had posters if it everywhere.
Goin by the dialogue in that vid it was '73 and I would've been 8!
Great looking car.......... remember the Mercedes C111 Bananarama! prototype? Same era, wonder if that was an influence?
A mate of my old man at the time had an NSU Ro80, me n Unker were just chattin bout Rotary engines the other day and I only just realised that there isn't a Rotary engined car in production any more?

Adrian Worman wrote: me n Unker were just chattin bout Rotary engines the other day and I only just realised that there isn't a Rotary engined car in production any more?

Really? Not even Mazda?

I wonder if it is for the reasons mentioned in the video clip. The difficulty of getting the emissions down low enough?

Excellent vid, Tom seems a no nonsence sort of guy!

Has the De Tomaso look about it!!!

Kev wrote:Excellent vid, Tom seems a no nonsence sort of guy!

Yeah but when it comes to buying/selling second hand cars he is no different to most other second hand car dealers.

Wow a rear engined, front wheel drive, steel vette,

It's still rear wheel drive. Using a front wheel drive transaxle in the rear.

Dave wrote:It's still rear wheel drive. Using a front wheel drive transaxle in the rear.

And Porsche parts too, not really a vette then is it???

I think the only Vette bit of it is the name.

It seems that the rotary is not quite dead and that Mazda,although ending production in 2012 and saying there would be no more are actually developing a new version for 2015/16 launch. Unless they change plans again.

Money is on the next generation C8 Corvette being a mid-engine supercar. Possibly as early as 2017.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/a-mid-engi ... d-the-way/