The 2004 Mazda RX-8 arrived as a high-stakes bet that sports car buyers would still embrace a rotary engine in an era ...

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 RX-7 ...

The rotary engine is unique in its success and failure and its ability to make an impact with a completely different way of thinking. As it is, every production car for the last 130 years, aside from ...

Most Japanese performance car enthusiasts are familiar with the 13B twin-rotor engine Mazda equipped the RX-7 and RX-8 with. But unless you've owned and modified an RX of some type, chances are you ...

Patents lodged by Mazda appear to show the next-gen rotary as a mild hybrid that actually uses its rotary engine to drive the rear wheels. At the renamed Japan Mobility Show last year, Mazda revealed ...

The Iconic SP is almost certain to house the new rotary powertrain announced by CEO Moro. It’s official. The rotary is coming back. Earlier this month at the Tokyo Auto Salon, Japan’s biggest car ...

Jacob is a senior automotive journalist and editor with over a decade of experience in the industry. Before joining CarBuzz in 2023, he served as Chief Editor and Senior Car Reviewer at AutoDeal and ...