It's not a Wankel, but it is installed in a go-kart. LiquidPiston's X Mini engine gets a micro-scale workout in this video. isn't new, but it is endlessly fascinating. It's a rotary, but it doesn ...

var digg_url = 'https://digg.com/hardware/Delorean_with_a_300hp_3_rotor_Wankel_engine'; In the late sixties and early seventies, many car companies were enamored with ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder, has firmly jumped into the deep end of the pool with his latest project: The ...

It consists of 4 rotors in each bank (3 banks total) and gets synchronized via a timing gear system. The engine was designed to have a footprint the same as a big block V8. More On The Wankel ...

The man just loves his rotary, to the point that he's built a 4-rotor Wankel engine before and shoehorned it into, well, you've guessed it, a Mazda RX-7. While the 4-rotor AWD, Jeep Grand Cherokee ...

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 ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised its sleek design and named the vehicle its Car of the Year. Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ...

Mazda had an interest in this unconventional engine design from the beginning, partnering with NSU which in turn made Felix Wankel’s dream of a rotary engine a reality. When NSU, which was owned ...