The new badge was an oval in shape, had a wreath of 10 maple leaves, which represented Canada's ten provinces, and on a blue field, which represented the Air Force, were a lightning bolt, superimposed on two crossed cannons, superimposed on a Wankel-type piston (the symbol the Society of Automotive Engineers) and surmounted by St. Edward's Crown.
Wiegert announced that the Vector would use the Wankel rotary engine and that it would be priced at $100,000.
Sponsored by the Mazda factory for his entire IMSA career, Jim progressed up the competition ladder from the near showroom stock Radial Sedan series Mazda RX-2 & Mazda RX3, to GTU Mazda RX3 & Mazda RX7 and GTO in the Mazda RX7, then up to the ultra-quick purpose-built GTP category prototypes, all powered by two, three, and four rotor versions of the Mazda Wankel engine.
The first racing victory by a Wankel-engined car in the United States was in 1973, when Bedard won an IMSA RS race at Lime Rock Park in a Mazda RX-2.
Since the Quasiturbine is a pure expansion engine, while the Wankel and most other rotary engines are not, it is well-suited as a compressed fluid engine, air engine or air motor.
Designed by Claus Luthe, the K70 was originally developed by NSU as a smaller brother to the Ro 80, distinguished by its conventional piston engine rather than the Ro80's Wankel rotary engine.
Wankel engine, a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design instead of reciprocating pistons
In the early 1970s, Sachs produced the revolutionary Wankel rotary engine powered Hercules motorcycle.
Originally powered by a converted NSU Ro 80 Wankel-type automotive engine, Berger later fitted a BMW 6012 turbine to the aircraft, and later still another adapted automotive Wankel engine, this time from a Mazda RX-7.
The Norton Wankel engine was further developed at Staverton into the MidWest aero-engine.