Rather than letting the rotary engine die, Mazda reframed the Wankel as a lightweight EV generator—keeping its iconic legacy ...

Unveiled in 1970, Mazda's 1,870-lb RX-500 mid-engine concept featured a 1.0L rotary engine designed to rev up to a staggering ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

Rotary engines often require unique forms of maintenance, and sometimes, that means premixing oil and gas. Here's how to know if your car needs this service.

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 ...

Rotary engines are compact, smooth, and powerful, so why don't more automakers use them? Well, it's complicated.

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012, the ...

If there is one universal truth in the automotive community, it is that rotary engines are completely unhinged pieces of ...

The gist is that, according to Mogo, the Iconic-SP concept was very well received. Count MotorTrend in that camp, as the sleek coupe concept and its cult-classic rotary engine (even relegated to range ...

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a multi-faceted individual whose expertise spans the worlds of library and information science, environmental advocacy, and – perhaps surprisingly – the automotive ...

The piston engine may be the most common type of internal combustion engine found in consumer automotive vehicles. That doesn't mean it's the only option drivers have ever had access to. In the 1960s, ...