En flanant sur le net, j'ai trouvé une info absolument incroyable...
Saviez vous que dans la grande liste des constructeurs qui ont utilisé un moteur Wankel (Mazda, Citroen, NSU,...) il y a également eu... LADA !!!
Et ils en ont fait jusque 1997 !!!!!!!!!!!
Lada !
Petite histoire (intéressante) de la marque ici :
http://digilander.libero.it/cuoccimix/E ... (lada).htm
Et notamment le passage :
"Another unknown chapter of the Lada's history is represented by the Wankel engines. The VAZ has realized, since the end of the '70s, several exemplars of this type of engine, used also by names like Mazda, NSU, Comotor-Citroen, Suzuki, Van Veen, Norton, Trabant, etc.(and the Russian motorcycles Motoprom and Rotor). In the 1980, Lada begins to produce 250 "Zhiguli" equipped with a single-rotor engine, 70 hp (in the first and second pics above, a "Zhiguli" and the first Lada Wankel engine). The "Zhiguli" Wankel had the same coachwork of the normal version, but under the cowl there was an electronic section very advanced for the period: a processor analyzes the data of the accelerator position and of the rotor's speed, and with these data it regulates the ignition. There is also a system that injects anti-freeze fluid at the low temperatures. After this unit, a two-rotor engine (third pic) was realized, with a power of 130 hp, fitted also on the police version of the "Samara". During the '80s, were realized even some exemplar of GAZ "Volga" equipped by a three-rotor VAZ engine (fourth pic), with 210 hp (!). All these cars were realized usually for the KGB and the GAI (the Russian police), and for the competitions; since 1997, these cars are available also for the private citizens. "
3 rotor Engine
Et voici les voitures qui portaient ces tri-rotors en compétition :
But the life of the Lada-Wankel engines is terribly short: 20.000 km!! This because the russian alloy is of poor quality: a Wankel engine needs high-quality materials for the various elements. Making an engine of this type with the russian steels, it's like producing an aeromotive engine with the bronze of the antique coins...These engines are very interesting, but the lacks of money and resources makes the ideas of the Russians engineers hard to translate in the reality. Still today, these engines are produced in limited series (also for the aeronautical use), and used, for example, on the new Lada "110 Super Tourism" (two pics above), equipped with a two-rotor engine, for the National championships.
De plus, Lada a réalisé une série de protos assez fous (des voitures de sport!!!) dans les années 80.
Ex :
Laura Kaliakra
(Sortie AVANT la subaru SVX)
Katran 1.6i (Coupé 2 places. Existait aussi en cabriolet)
Une Lada 110 avec moteur opel de 150ch et traction intégrale (Lada Impreza ?)
Ils ont même des protos de Monospace :
En Russie, ils ont des Lada "GTI"
La nouvelle Niva, à moteur Fiat (moderne)
Un SUV (si si) qui s'appelle Tarzan (si si)
Un proto électrique : Lada Rapan
Une familiale à moteur turbo ("Peter Turbo" prototype)
Et même un Proto de sport, le Lada "Revolution 2", qui a été réalisé par "TMS ", qui est à lada ce que AMG est à mercedes. 
Vous saviez qu'ils avaient des véhicules qui se sont attribués plusieurs records de vitesse dans les années 50-80 ?
http://digilander.libero.it/cuoccimix/E ... ormula.htm
Ils avaient même des "Formule Un"
Tatra 607
Moskvich G5
Russia A20/16 à moteur lada 1600cc
Je suis sur le cul..... 
