Can anyone tell me why have the rotaries not been used more in

>>16450092
Why wouldn't it be? AWD is just transmission stuff bro.

It also mainly comes down to the fact that most WRC cars use the same basic engine that comes in the base car it's designed from, just built up. Since this is the case you could only use RX7 chassis mostly for rotary builds, which is a stupid idea and Mazda doesn't really do WRC anyway.

>>16450146
Right, but back in the day the engines were not really the same, right? You had fancy shit like Subaru's boxers, and so on.

>>16450092
Because rotaries were not exactly widespread, for most manufacturers it was cheaper to modify existing piston engines for rallying than designing a rotary engine from scratch, with all the problems that come with "inventing" something from nothing (mostly reliability issues)

The manufacturers that could use rotaries were probably not interested in rally enough to dump investments in that kind of power train for that kind of racing discipline.

Plus the rules now only allow for piston engines, and have been like that for a while.

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rally FBs are 2sexy

>>16450092
Rotarys are super unreliable

>>16450435
Very reliable for racing and constant use, especially with maintenance.

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>>16450419
FCs are no slouch either.
FB > FC > FD (if a rally FD existed)

>>16450162
He means that rally cars usually take the base engine from their model and tune the fuck out of it. It isn't very common that racing teams put a completely custom block just for rally.