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12-27-2017, 03:33 PM
Former Mazda engineer and president Kenichi Yamamoto may not have invented the rotary engine, but he’s the reason the design made it to mass production and became a symbol of Mazda’s ingenuity. Yamamoto passed away in his home country of Japan on December 20, 2017, at the age of 95, The Asahi Shimbun reports. As...
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