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

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

Rotary engines such as the Wankel have strange shapes that can be difficult to machine (as evidenced by the specialized production machines and patents in the 70s), which means it lends itself well to ...

We look at why Mazda introduced the three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, and why it only ever saw service in the Cosmo coupe ...

“The higher the rpm, the better it goes,” Manny Barreiros says of his 1967 NSU Wankel Spider, the first rotary-powered production car. Ironically perhaps, the rev-happy character of the Wankel would ...

The XP-892 just flat-out caught everyone short. After nearly a decade of shark-proportioned Corvette experimentals, everyone was left wondering, "It doesn't look like a Corvette." And that engine, ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Wankel Engines Market by Type (Water Cooled and Air Cooled), and Application (Automotive and Aerospace): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry ...

We thought for sure that any news of an electric vehicle with a Wankel range-extender would include "Mazda" in the headline, but the honor goes to an unforeseen player: Knaus Tabbert. The European RV ...

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.