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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jim, a virtual artist known as "jlord8" on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm, ...

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s. The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper. However ...

The patent shows a design that could allow for a much ... No, we don't mean the rounded Doritos of the Wankel rotary engine ...

This comes straight from Masamichi Kogai, the CEO of Mazda, which is the only company ... is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight ...

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