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 ...

Stuttgart (dpa) – The assembly halls at Korb near Stuttgart used to resound to the whirring of rotary Wankel engines – but now all is plunged into silence. Managing director Juergen Bax casts ...

Unusual, but then the entire car is—a 1970 Mercedes-Benz C 111 with a Wankel rotary engine. No Mercedes from the era is more spectacular than this. Just 55 years ago, the look alone was a ...