I have spoken to a few people who had them, even bought a victim 83
Vanagon from a guy who had given up on the rotary after a couple of
short lived installs. He said the power was high up in the rpm band and
the fuel mileage was lousy, even with the 5 speed tranny his 83 Vanagon
came with.

Mark

Allan Streib wrote:
> Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> One of my neighbors in Baja had one.  He towed his Baja bug beetle
>> with it.  Seemed to work ok.   He sold it when he got into dirt bikes
>> and bought a big long Ford to fit the bikes into.
>
> I'm intrigued.  I see KEP has a kit for adapting a Mazda Rotary to a
> Type 1.  I wonder how much of that would fit a Vanagon?  Is there any
> particular benefit to a rotary?  I drove a Mazda rotary for a few days
> back in the 80s (was a rental) and all I remember about it was it was
> very smooth.
>
> Allan