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.

Mazda will not give up on the rotary engine. The appeal of the spinning triangles must have hypnotized the entire engineering department more than 50 years ago, and so they keep trying to make fetch ...

Because now rotary specialist Rob Dahm has his hands on the Y-configuration 12-rotor,15.7-liter, tri-turbo engine built for a speedboat, but never used, by high-performance engine builder Tyson ...

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 ...

First up is the Iconic SP Concept, which debuted at a Japanese car show in 2023. The sleek sports car features a unique two-rotor EV system, in which the rotary engine acts as a generator to ...

Mazda stunned the world with the RX-Vision concept last year and now we have the first details on its new rotary engine. Currently under development, Mazda’s next-generation rotary engine has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

during the Brussels Motor Show in January, where the automaker first unveiled a car of the plug-in hybrid model. A rotary engine uses rotational movement of triangular rotors to turn the wheels ...