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Another unknown chapter of the Lada\'s history is represented by the Wankel engines. The VAZ has realized, since the end of the \'70s, several exemplars of this type of engine, used also by names like Mazda, NSU, Comotor-Citroen, Suzuki, Van Veen, Norton, Trabant, etc.(and the Russian motorcycles Motoprom and Rotor). In the 1980, Lada begins to produce 250 \"Zhiguli\" equipped with a single-rotor engine, 70 hp. The \"Zhiguli\" Wankel had the same coachwork of the normal version, but under the cowl there was an electronic section very advanced for the period: a processor analyzes the data of the accelerator position and of the rotor\'s speed, and with these data it regulates the ignition. There is also a system that injects anti-freeze fluid at the low temperatures. After this unit, a two-rotor engine (third pic) was realized, with a power of 130 hp, fitted also on the police version of the \"Samara\". During the \'80s, were realized even some exemplar of GAZ \"Volga\" equipped by a three-rotor VAZ engine, with 210 hp (!). All these cars were realized usually for the KGB and the GAI (the Russian police), and for the competitions; since 1997, these cars are available also for the private citizens.




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