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the efficiency of the wankel engines is 38 % as compared to the inline or v line engines which holds only 21%....

I don't know where that guy got that information from, but it's pretty wrong if he's talking about fuel efficiency. Wankel engines are quite poor in efficiency, but when compared to inline engines that offer the same performance (powerful V8s) they will have similar fuel efficiencies.

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