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

The Mazda 787B itself wasn't banned from Le Mans; instead, the car was a victim of rule changes outlawing the rotary engine ...

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 ...

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 ...