The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure ...

Invented by a German but perfected by the Japanese, the Wankel rotary engine is best-known for powering a slew of brilliant ...

Once left behind due to high fuel consumption and fragile reliability, the rotary engine, long championed by Mazda, is making ...

Chinese firm Dongan Auto revives the Wankel engine, developing a lightweight prototype aimed at next-gen aerial mobility ...

Mazda’s rotary engine is coming back in the spotlight, but this time it’s not just a nostalgic callback to the RX-7 glory days. Instead, it’s quietly shaping the brand’s electrified future. Rather ...

Max graduated Coventry University with a Masters Degree in Automotive Journalism and an Undergraduate Degree in Automotove Design. As an enthusiast who has worked closely with the automotive industry, ...

Mazda continues to hint strongly at a production version of the Iconic SP concept The Iconic SP debuted at the 2023 Tokyo auto show Power comes from electric drive system with rotary engine serving as ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

Everything about this build is pure comedy, and you’ll soon see why. Things start funny, with the builder employing a three-door, second-generation Toyota RAV4 as its blank canvas. Not only does that ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor ...

Powering down the tarmac of the Salinas Airport, surrounded by the parked private jets that ferried some subset of the ultra-wealthy into the Monterey Peninsula for so-called Car Week, I get that ...