Meanwhile, the rotary engine’s strained and blatty exhaust note -- which always sounded to me like a conch shell trumpet -- is transformed into a husky growl, thanks to various resonators and ...

Rotary engines are notorious for lacking low-end ... Essentially, Shimizu turned intake trumpets into intake trombones, and it worked. Mazda was able to achieve 690 hp at 9000 rpm, and crucially ...

A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an ...

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 ...

If you're a gearhead, there's a chance you love rotary engines as much as I do. The unique and angry sounds they make, their high redlines, and Mazda's daring at making an unconventional engine ...

Anyone who questioned the reliability of a rotary engine would have been silenced by an ear-piercing soundtrack bouncing off ...

Imagine triangles spinning around a shower curtain rod inside a beer keg—that is an elemental description of the screaming Wankel rotary engine. This powerplant is beloved by gearheads the world ...

The first rotary engines were scrapped after the war - but could it live again 100 years later with plug-in hybrid technology? ENGINE tech ditched a century ago could be making a comeback in next ...

While many of the engines popular today are engineering marvels, the designs and ideas of years past can be even more ...

Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card. A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are ...

The rotary engine is perhaps one of the most polarizing motors to have ever been commercialized. From its checkered past to its intent to live on as a range extender, the small spinning triangle ...

Dahm's latest project is to swap an NA Miata's four-cylinder out for a compact rotary engine. But unlike other rotary swaps, that usually use a 13b dual-rotor out of an RX-7, Dahm is using just a ...