Mazda will not give up on the rotary engine. The appeal of the spinning triangles must have hypnotized the entire engineering ...

You didn’t need to look too hard at the Iconic SP to see a viable car beneath its concept’s sleek lines. “I have to be very ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

Dahm's latest project is to swap an NA Miata's four-cylinder out for a compact rotary engine. But unlike other rotary swaps, that usually use a 13b dual-rotor out of an RX-7, Dahm is using just a ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back ...

Even with the rotary engine silent and the car static – in a room, in Dartford – that aura was present in spades. Mazda’s ever-after association with the rotary engine began in the ’60s ...

Mazda has already put the rotary engine back into limited production, using a small single-rotor 830-cc version that produces a peak of 74 hp to act as a range-extender in the MX-30 R-EV ...