The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

Mazda has never been scared to try something different, and its 1990s luxury coupe embodies this approach as well as any ...

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

Once again Mazda lives up to its reputation as a brand for unconventional solutions. Proof is the new electric MX-30 R-EV equipped with a range extender powered by a Wankel engine. This rotary piston ...

The Mazda Iconic SP concept of the 2023 Japan Mobility Show was the sign of a new Mazda sports car that we’ve been awaiting for a decade—no, two. The Wankel rotary-powered, popup headlight-equipped ...

Language is an imperfect medium, but it's what we've got, so let's go with it. Determining the swept volume of inventor Felix Wankel's rotary engine can generate more arguments than claiming what a GT ...

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder, has firmly jumped into the deep end of the pool with his latest project: The world's only 15.7-liter, tri-turbo Y12 rotary engine. If that doesn't make ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

In order to understand the value of the correct spark plugs in a rotary engine, you first must understand a bit of how a ...