The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure rotary ...

To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... In 1960, NSU and ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968 ...

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 wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...

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 ...

What does 1,350 pounds feel like flying down a steep, winding road with 400 horsepower from a turbo RX7 Mazda rotary engine ... year Award-winning pilot flew aircraft uniquely his own New Dallas ...

But the real magic was from the firewall forward: The traditional Lycoming engine was replaced by a twin-rotor Mazda rotary mated to ... trimmed for climbing, the aircraft still put out 500 ...