Have you seen this new type of internal engine ?
 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/quasiturbine.htm

I knew about wankel used in mazdas. This one surprised me.

Here is some video . Gokart with quasi. Pretty cool.

Quasiturbine.com has more stuff if interested.

http://translate.google.com/translat...f%3D1%26sa%3DG

Cool stuff!

Interesting stuff. I fail to see the advantage, it would be prone to compression loss from carbon IMO. Give me a V8 and I am happy.

doesn't need to push around more mass.