Wankel flies in the face of all this. A simplified Wankel engine has only two moving parts: the rotor, and the eccentric shaft. CC-BY-SA-3.0 by Y_tambe via Wikimedia Common.

Mazda was an early and steadfast proponent of the Wankel engine. It signed a development contract with NSU in 1959 and displayed its 2-rotor and 4-rotor Wankel engines at the 1964 Tokyo Motor Show.

Few automakers have ever created one, and Mazda was the only one to put it into mass production in models like the RX-7 and ...

The return of the Wankel engine does not resemble its prior use The R-EV powertrain employs a single-rotor Wankel engine generator that, unlike the most recent RX-8, is not connected to the wheels.

Rob Dahm’s adopted custom 12-rotor Wankel engine project needs a lot of detail work and some hefty reengineering before it can be pushed to the maximum.

Wankel also noticed the radial engines that were already used by aviation. These were created by Felix Millet in 1888 and entered production in 1900. But, unfortunately, that type of engine had ...

The Wankel Rotary Engine notes that NSU issued 15 licenses for its technology by 1966, a lucrative venture in its own right. The compactness of a rotary was a huge benefit.

Mazda’s long-rumored return to rotary-powered performance is shaping up as the Iconic SP concept inches closer to a ...

The Wankel engine is presently being produced for passenger cars in both Europe and Japan, and we've driven one. It was the NSU RO80, a sweet-running four-door sedan with excellent aerodynamics ...

One of the rotary engine's biggest champions, AIE has been advancing rotary design since 2012. Its latest release shows that Wankel engines can be a perfect fit for compact, power-demanding ...

Still, Wankel's story is a fascinating one. His obsession with the idea of building a rotary engine began in 1919 when, at the ripe old age of 17, he had a strangely prophetic dream that he ...