Designed and championed by self-taught engineer Felix Wankel, the rotary engine is now most closely associated with Japanese automaker Mazda. Many of the greatest Mazdas ever made, including the RX-7 ...

Cars using a Wankel rotary are certain to attract collectors' attention. These are 10 to take a look at.

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Mazda’s rumored rotary-powered sports car could arrive in 2028 with hybrid technology and nearly 500 horsepower.

The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic. That ...

Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...

In a warehouse in Louisiana, a massive collection of rare, rotary-powered cars that took over 40 years to stockpile is in the process of being sold off, car by car. The story is a sadly familiar one, ...

Many car shows and gatherings have been cancelled this year, but in a few cases organisers have managed to come up with a solution for more effective social distancing so as they could actually go on ...

Will Mazda build it? Mazda has a new RWD platform for its inline-six cars that could accommodate the smaller rotary engine. And rotary technology is not wholly useless elsewhere in the lineup, as the ...

Mazda’s last rotary-powered sports car, the RX-8, went out of production almost 11 years ago, and since then, they have been going back and forth about launching a new one. The biggest step in this ...

After years of rumors and experimentation behind closed doors, the Mazda rotary engine is officially back. The Vision X-Coupe, a plug-in hybrid concept showcased at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, has ...