“The higher the rpm, the better it goes,” Manny Barreiros says of his 1967 NSU Wankel Spider, the first rotary-powered production car. Ironically perhaps, the rev-happy character of the Wankel would ...

The 1960s-vintage West German NSU Spider was the first car to feature the Wankel rotary engine. While its successor, the NSU Ro 80, may get all the attention for its innovative design and compact ...

We've covered cars that set huge trends in the automotive world, but not every innovative car sets the world on fire. This series is about cars which were something the world had never seen before, ...

Rotary engines made their biggest impact in Mazda sports cars, but a recent episode of "Jay Leno's Garage" delves into the rotary's earlier history. Before it was popularized by Mazda, the rotary ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1964 NSU Wankel Spider 2 Door Convertible across different levels of condition. Edit options.

Launched in the late 1960s, the Ro 80 wasn't just the world's first mass-produced sedan with rotary power, but also one of the most innovative production vehicles of its era. The rotary motor, also ...

Back in 1965, Autocar began road test number 2043 by pondering what newfangled contraption would replace the internal combustion engine, much as we so often do today. We were reviewing the NSU Wankel ...

NSU debuted the Spider in 1963, and it caused a something of a commotion. But once the uproar had died down, the rotary-engine powered car was largely ignored by the German market. By the time ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Let me start with reciting the background story. The Wankel engine, which is sometimes called the rotary engine is something that's often ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1965 NSU Wankel Spider 2 Door Convertible across different levels of condition. Edit options.