Oil shock and exhaust gas control.
Rotary power was required just the time was gloomy for cars.

Roadpacer AP
began to run from the international division of labor.
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*Cold water had poured unexpectedly to the backs of people who had wield to the island chain reorganization.
That was oil shock, depended on the Middle East War which had break out on November, 1973.

A ripple that was originated in rissing price of oil had spread into the people from the industrial world in an instant. It hits not only my-car tribe but also hit directly our living by soaring prices. Unexpected lack of oil magnified to extreme lack of materials and caused "hoarding panic" involved housewives with toilet papers, detergents, sugars and salts.

Then on 1973, a real economic growth rate have fell down to minus for the first time, after the war.


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* Tn 1975 when frenzy prices have sedatived, the world have very changed.
The reading player who had preached the theory of an island chain reorganization, had already lost their political power.

Shigeo Nagashima of the Giants and Taiho of the Sumo who were objects of envy to the children had also retired from playing.

*Of course, the environment which surrounded the cars were not same as before.
It was directly attacked by oil shock and exhaust gas control.
From such a dying condition, Roadpacer AP was born on March, 1975.

It carried 13B type rotary engine on a big body of GM's.
With clearing fifty('75)years exhaust gas control for the first time on regular private car, it had quickly went forward the first step to the division of international labor of next coming car industry.