Norton Rotary Bike Feature on Top Gear, features Police Interpol
Another old recording I found on VHS from the old days of Top Gear.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking too.
why no bikes on top gear now?
Did anyone notice the tail lights from the police bike were up-turned clusters from the Vauxhall Nova (Opel Corsa A)
no were very fuel hungry !
@exilog we need whatever Clarkson has to say about British products, like a hole in the head!
@kassenz somebodie tell me that was a mafia with the petrol´s "god". because the rotarys engines was too much economic compsumtion. i read too that the rotarys need a extreme compression, like the 2t engines so, with a bad compression or sealed, the motor can´t start. (sorry my english)
Is this really Top Gear?
The 'old chap' presenting the Norton bikes is very good, very nice old school of radio and tv comunication sort of journalist. Top Gear in the nineties hasn't showed many bikes, has it??
@breethwithme
actually rotarys were very reliable back in the day and could stay at high rpms all day with out having valve spring damage and etc and when some thing goes wrong with a rotary there is only a couple faults with it and its the cooling seals and apex seals but what your speaking of is the oil crisis that almost killed the engine not the reliably
Two thing Id like to say, firstly I think the rotary engine is a cool engine unfortunately EU l emission's laws seem to but an end to it all. but with modern engine technology im sure they could keep it alive and competitive. secondly its really cool to see bikes reviewed on Topgear in a professional manner. I'd like to see May and Hammond review one or two of the latest bike this season. Id also love to see how fast a superbike would lap the Topgear circuit. 😀
at first if i'm not mistaken he said it had a water-cooled engine then later in the video he says is has an air-cooled engine?
wow. i'm amazed their rotary has more than 30 horsepower than my mazda rx-7
fuck you tooooo
The police bike was water-cooled, the classic which he rode was air cooled.
If Top Gear still had an informative bike segment I might still watch it occasionally. Unfortunately that's not likely with Jeremy w@nker Clarkson running the show.
It's a pity none of the Jap bike companies use Mazda's experience with Wankels to come up with a modern take on this amazing bike.
check out suzuki RE5
When top gear was relevant before the wanker Clarkson appeared