I received an interesting e-mail response from Ford to my inquiry about the Wankel powered Mustang. The gentleman from Ford Motor Company had no information on the earlier Mustang prototype built by Curtis Wright, but said that in1972 Ford studied the idea of putting a rotary engine in the Mustang for the 1975 model. That would have been the Mustang II.
He said that they studdied, but decided against it because it was too expensive and performance was no better than the V-6. Also interesting is that he mentioned that they were studying this to compete with a planned rotary powered Vega from Chevy.
Now, they performed studies, but never built a prototype, so there is no Unicorn or Holy Grail to search for here, just a little sliver of Ford history.
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