Designed and championed by self-taught engineer Felix Wankel, the rotary engine is now most closely associated with Japanese automaker Mazda. Many of the greatest Mazdas ever made, including the ...

The RX-8 followed with another chapter for the Wankel engine. The Mazda RX-8 rotary engine produced 232 hp and the car could ...

The results have been mixed. The rotary engine has graced engine compartments in everything from LeMans-winning race cars to build-it-yourself garage kits. Join us as we review seven of the most ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

Another "the Mazda rotary engine returns!" article ... "This concept is not just one of those empty show cars. It has been designed with real intent to turn it into a production model in the ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

rotary engines). Cars are listed by smallest to largest engine displacement. The Suzuki Cappuccino's three-cylinder engine is the result of strict Japanese kei car emission regulations.

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced its first Wankel rotary-engined car. There is, sadly, no 2017 Mazda RX-anything to celebrate that fact, but thankfully the Hiroshima-based manufacturer ...

The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric hybrid that, according to the company, boasts a maximum driving range for cars in its class. “The rotary engine was the ...