Felix Wankel’s rotary engine is an engineering marvel because of its simplicity. Rather than the conventional pistons, ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine is one of the most iconic ever fitted to a road car, and this is why it should return to the ...

Mazda announced plans to continue developing Wankel engines as generators for use in their EVs, starting with a new SUV by ...

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.

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The RX-8 followed with another chapter for the Wankel engine. The Mazda RX-8 rotary engine produced 232 hp and the car could ...

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 ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive landscape as a mass-produced internal combustion engine that eschews such unsightly items as pistons, valves and camshafts.