Sadly, the rotary engine basically died off in 2008 when production of the RX-8 sports car ceased. However, a humble little SUV has re-introduced such tech into the modern automotive landscape ...

Invented by a German but perfected by the Japanese, the Wankel rotary engine is best-known for powering a slew of brilliant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back ...

Idled for 11 years, Mazda Motor Corp.'s famed rotary engine is set to roar back to life this spring, this time helping to power a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The rotary engine, which Mazda was the ...

Even with the rotary engine silent and the car static – in a room, in Dartford – that aura was present in spades. Mazda’s ever-after association with the rotary engine began in the ’60s ...

"I got an unbelievable reaction," he says. That was a great encouragement, and I decided to reopen the rotary engine development group." Moro admits there are challenges to making a rotary ...

or rotary, engine. If you ever wondered how these worked, why not print a model? That’s what [Engineering Explained] did. They printed a 1/3 scale model and made a video explaining and ...

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, a model that ...