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

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 ...

Changan’s R05E prototype achieves first ignition, signaling renewed interest in rotary engines but for a wilder application.

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

The rotary internal combustion engine made most famous by Japanese car maker Mazda is set to be reborn... in China.

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 ...

The RX-500 was created to help Mazda’s engineers make car journeys safer, acting as a test bed for safety measures and ...

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 ...

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 ...