“Mad Mike” unveils world’s first 5-rotor Wankel in wild drift car
Internal combustion engines have still got a few punches left in them. Case in point: Kiwi drifter "Mad Mike" Whiddett has unveiled "the wildest drift car I could think of," built around the world's first 5-rotor Wankel rotary engine.Yes, the world is accelerating in its transition toward an electric future, and with good cause – but there's a certain hands-on, mechanical magic to the combustion engines that so many tuners have spent a lifetime understanding and sharpening. The noise, the smell, the heat and the inherent…