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GM wanted rotaries too.

Rotary Corvette Prototype
The wankel style rotary project was labled GMRCE (General Motors Rotary Combustion Engines), And by the summer of 72 there were two rotary powered vettes roaming GM's testing grounds.
In 1970, Chevrolet obtained a licence for the Wankel RCE from NSU and began building a two-rotor and a four-rotor Corvette. A fibreglass model is approved in June 1971 by GM Pres. Ed Cole.

On Jan. 14, 1972, a chassis was shipped to Pininfarina, Turin, Italy so that the body could be constructed by the famed design studio. In June of the same year, a 2 rotor Corvette with a steel body was viewed by GM management. The same year GM commissioned a two-rotor version of the XP-882 and built it as the XP-987GT.

In January 1973, a Corvette body was built for an experiment four-rotor car. By April, the GALCIT wind tunnel in California was used to test the aerodynamic qualities of the 4-rotor Corvette. In September 13, 1973 a 266 ci two-rotor Corvette was shown in Frankfurt, Germany. The four-rotor 390 ci Corvette was shown at Paris, France on Oct. 4, 1973, as well as the two-rotor.