To this day, the Mazda 787B is the only rotary-powered car to win at Le Mans. While it survived the 24-hour endurance race, ...

Popular East Park attraction the Rotary Cannonball, officially the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad No. 457 steam locomotive, ...

You might think that because all of these negative factors exist, it's done for good, but Mazda actually brought back the rotary engine in the MX-30, acting as a single-rotor range extender!

Cutaway engines are usually displayed in museums and at auto shows, but you’re in luck if you’ve always wanted to put one in your living room. Mecum is selling a Ford Model A cutaway engine ...

Mazda is known for its innovations in mass-produced rotary engines in sports cars like the RX-7, but it wasn't exactly the first to utilize Wankel's design.

Either way, Avadi demonstrated a prototype some years back. The MA-250 engine was producing 15.8 hp (11.8 kW) at 3,700 rpm and 22.3 lb-ft (30.24 nm) at 3,500 rpm weighing a mere 23.6 lb (10.7 kg ...

The Wankel engine is the most famous rotary engine, but it isn't the only kind. While they aren't as common these days, they haven't fully gone away.

Perhaps the brand most closely associated with rotary engines, thanks to sports cars like the RX-7 and RX-8, the Japanese automaker is now interested in their use as a generator for vehicles with ...

not a wankel This inside-out design solves most of the rotary engine’s problems LiquidPiston's designs will show up first in UAVs and generators. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Nov 13, 2023 9:05 AM | 175 ...

The rotary is kind of like the Rudy (from the movie “Rudy”) of engines. It’s a little smaller than the others, and might not be quite as good, but you can’t help rooting for it. Mazda says ...

The Wankel rotary engine popularized by Mazda will make its return as a range extender in the MX-30 R-EV, though these patent filings describe a larger two-rotor design that could be used to ...