#NSU

[les-belles-mecaniques]

1973 NSU Ro 80

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What's an automotive technology that you wish had made it that didn't?

NSU Trapeze, 1973, by Bertone. In the late 60s and early 70s it seemed likely the rotary engine, invented by Felix Wankel, was going to take over the auto industry. The advantages of compact design, smoothness, low weight, and fewer parts over piston internal combustion engines gave rotary power a bright future. NSU was the first car company to develop the Wankel motor into series production but from the late 60s all major automobile makers were working on rotary power, perhaps most famously General Motors and of course Mazda. Alas as is often the case physics got in the way, despite its remarkable power the Wankel system has lower thermal efficiency and higher emissions relative to a piston engine. So from the early 70s one by one everyone abandoned their rotary programs apart from the Volkswagen AG (by now owners of NSU), Citroën and Mazda. Not only was Bertone's Trapeze rotary-powered but it also presents another configuration concept that seemed to have potential in the 70s and early 80s. Mid-engined 4/5 seat cars. A number of concepts were presented with 2 and 4 doors that could seat multiple passengers with engines placed behind the rear seats (in the Trapeze it was in the middle of them). However no-one ever got around to putting a mid-engine 4-door saloon into production and the industry moved onto almost universal adoption of front transverse engines and front wheel drive.

Fun fact about Felix Wankel (1902-1988) inventor of the rotary engine, he was extremely nearsighted and never held a driver’s licence but had the same chauffeur for most of his life

rotary gif by Y_tambe

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

the way my excitement for never stop blowing up SKYROCKETED when i saw the cast. they said this is the CHAOS chaos season

[photoold]

NSU RENNMAX

[oldfavouritecars]

NSU Ro 80

1967-77 Germany

[ifwebefriends]

I’m almost 3 hours into the new QuintonReviews video (the one that’s NINE AND A HALF HOURS LONG) and I just want everyone to know 2 things (minor spoilers):

Quinton reviewed the rest of the Lil Sam and Cat Show (the animated online supplement to Sam and Cat that apparently went longer than Sam & Cat itself) but he sped up the video by 5000x and the audio is jumbled nonsense so this maniac just made lost media for the sake of pacing (in a 9.5 hour video) and fun

Quinton will be appearing in upcoming videos on Smosh Pit and Smosh Games

[frenchcurious]

NSU Prinz L 1969. - source Classic and Modern Show Cars AU.

[bookshelfdreams]

Der Fall Peggy Knobloch und vor allem die Ermittlungen dazu ergeben so viel mehr Sinn, wenn man sich klarmacht, dass der Leiter der SOKO Peggy II später auch der Leiter der BAO Bosporus war

[dangerdazee]

the dangerverse is a way cooler name than the schneiderverse

i hate the Schneiderverse name in general because sometimes a creator doesn't deserve to be credited for the good things they made 🥰 and that man certainly doesn't deserve to be credited for his shows (except for the weird stuff he put in them. those are all his fault.)

plus, at some point he stopped working on Henry Danger and he didn't work on Danger Force (at least not? much?) right? so he absolutely doesn't get credit for things he didn't even make.

Dangerverse works really well when you're referring to Henry Danger and Danger Force.

now if you wanna refer to the full universe of those shows that includes like Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, iCarly, Victorious, Sam & Cat, Gameshakers, AND the Dangerverse shows... i have taken to using the term that Quinton Reviews used in his miniseries about iCarly/Victorious/Sam & Cat and that would be...

The Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe

or, the NSU.

[onetwothreefarkle]

someone who just watched Quiet on the Set: holy shit do you know about the abuses at Nickelodeon?

me, who followed DanWarp as a kid and was there when he asked us for feet pics, has watched all of Quinton Reviews’ NSU videos multiple times, and read Jennette McCurdy’s book:

[newsfromsomewhere]

Engineer Fridel Munch tests his NSU Munch Mammut prototype motorcycle which used a four cylinder car engine. 1960s.

[les-belles-mecaniques]

Prototype NSU T32 de Porsche 1933

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

NSU 1000 C, 1967. NSU's biggest seller throughout the 1960s was the rear-engined Prinz and its successor, the 1000. The 1000 was powered by an unusual air-cooled OHC in line 4 cylinder engine. It remained in production until 1973 but was phased out as NSU was gradually absorbed by Audi and NSU's factory was needed to build larger and more profitable Audis.

[oldfavouritecars]

NSU-Fiat 500 A Topolino Weinsberg Roadster

1938 Germany

[revesdautomobiles]

[frenchcurious]

NSU RO 80 par Jidéhem pour Spirou. - source Jean-Pol Arnould.