Joseph is a passionate car enthuisast who has years of casual shop experience working on vehicles of all shapes and sizes. In addition, he possess a natural passion for automotives, which he has been ...

We haven’t seen the last of the spinning triangles. Back in March, Martijn ten Brink, Mazda Motor Europe's vice president of sales and customer service, ignited gearheads everywhere when he told Dutch ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine ...

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 ...

The Wankel rotary engine is an engineer's dream. Smaller, lighter and simpler than any piston engine, the spinning-triangle design can crank out major power from a tiny package with a minimum of ...

Let’s talk rotary engines. Also known as Wankel engines, these unique power plants can be finicky at best, but when they work, they are absolutely wondrous. Well-known car builder Rob Dahm has been ...

If Mazda is known for anything, it's its use of the venerable and unique Wankel rotary engine. The Japanese manufacturer utilized the powerplant for around 50 years as it continually developed the ...

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.