China has unveiled a new type of air-breathing engine that could replace today’s turbine-ramjet ...

China is developing a groundbreaking air-breathing engine, potentially powering next-generation fighter jets and hypersonic ...

Revolutionary engine prototype three decades in the making could replace combined turbine-ramjet systems in high-speed flight ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...

In the early '90s, Mazda's rotary-powered RX-7 was the quintessential Japanese two-seat sports car. But then the Miata ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

Does anyone else think the Mazda RX-8 used to be the coolest thing on the road. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t that fast. Nor that its rotary engine burns oil like Snoop burns “za,” and slurps gas ...

Removing an 800-HP rotary engine is supposed to feel like progress, not panic. The moment it came out, a hidden problem ...

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...