This Japanese Engineer OUTSMARTED Detroit With a "Secret" Rotary Engine That Changed Everything
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What if the greatest automotive breakthrough of the 20th century came not from Detroit's massive R&D centers, but from a single Japanese engineer working with a fraction of the budget?
In this video, we explore the extraordinary story of Kenichi Yamamoto, the Mazda engineer who solved the rotary engine's apex seal crisis that had defeated General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler after they'd collectively burned through nearly a billion dollars. While Detroit's engineers insisted on using harder metals and exotic alloys, Yamamoto revolutionized automotive engineering by thinking like a chemist instead of a metallurgist, developing a carbon-aluminum composite seal that not only worked but actually improved with use. His breakthrough enabled Mazda to bring the rotary engine to mass production, dominate racing circuits worldwide, and ultimately win Le Mans in 1991 - a victory so decisive that rotary engines were banned from the race thereafter.
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