Editing Comotor

[[Image:Wankel Cycle anim.gif|thumb|Wankel motor]]

'''Comotor SA''' was a joint venture between [[NSU Motorenwerke|NSU]] and [[Citroën]], created in [[Luxembourg]] in April 1967. Its goal was to produce [[Wankel engine]]s.

It followed an earlier, 1964 joint venture of both companies, the Geneva-based '''Comobil''' subsidiary, focusing on the development of the engines. Comotor engines were used by the [[Citroën M35]] and by the [[Citroën GS#GS Birotor|GS Birotor]].

In 1969 the company purchased a large 850 000 m<sup>2</sup> plot of land at [[:de:Altforweiler|Altforweiler]], half an hour to the east of Luxembourg in [[Germany|German]] [[Saarland]]<ref name=Autocar197111>{{cite magazine| authorlink = Edouard Seidler | title = Upheaval of an empire: How Lotz went out and Leiding came in|magazine=[[Autocar (magazine)|Autocar]] | volume =  135 (nbr 3947)| pages =44–47|date = 25 November 1971}}</ref> in order to build a factory.

The venture was hamstrung by technical, reliability, and fuel consumption issues. Although Citroën took a slow and calculated development path, including a two-year [[beta test]] program in which 267 [[Citroën M35]] prototypes were tested exhaustively by selected customers, rising fuel prices in 1973 nullified market demand for the fuel-thirsty engine. The vast sums that were invested in the '''Comobil''' and '''Comotor''' joint ventures were major contributors to the bankruptcy of both NSU and [[Citroën]].

[[Van Veen (motorcycle)|Henk van Veen]] of the Netherlands designed the OCR 1000 motorcycle around the Comotor engine. His company manufactured 38 of these motorcycles between 1974 and 1978.

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[[Category:Engineering companies of Luxembourg]]
[[Category:Defunct companies of Luxembourg]]
[[Category:Wankel engines]]
[[Category:NSU Motorenwerke]]
[[Category:Citroën]]


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