The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...

The Mazda MX-30 is still soldiering on like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Japanese domestic market. There, Mazda fitted the MX-30 with a combustion engine. Japanese buyers ...

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 that you ...

Tyler began his love for the automotive world from in front of a television screen, playing games like Gran Turismo and Need For Speed. While cars have always been his passion, he pivoted towards ...

The gist is that, according to Mogo, the Iconic-SP concept was very well received. Count MotorTrend in that camp, as the sleek coupe concept and its cult-classic rotary engine (even relegated to range ...

Davies has had a keen interest in cars from a very young age. It didn't matter what kind of car it was, as long as it had four wheels and made some cool noises, he was into it. His interest in cars ...

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 eccentric ...

The Iconic SP is almost certain to house the new rotary powertrain announced by CEO Moro. It’s official. The rotary is coming back. Earlier this month at the Tokyo Auto Salon, Japan’s biggest car ...

Find out how emissions regulations killed Mazda's three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, just as it was getting started in the ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

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