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.

Could there possibly be a rotary engine with 12 rotors? The answer is yes, and here’s everything we know about it including ...

The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the ...

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 ...

It's starting to look more and more likely that the Wankel rotary engine could have a future as ... By comparison, the more powerful 75 kW 1.4-liter inline-four in the Chevrolet Volt weighs ...

The mere fact that this engine starts and runs is a testament to the mechanical know-how of these guys. For comparison's sake, Mazda's own Le Mans-winning 787 prototype utilized a four-rotor Wankel.

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 ...

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012 ...

The only cars in recent times to utilise a Wankel rotary engine have been Mazdas – the RX-8 being the most recent. But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles ...