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

In fact, no fewer than nine different manufacturers fitted a Wankel engine in at least one factory car (not including Wankel motorcycles): Mazda, Škoda, NSU, Citroën, AvtoVAZ, Mercedes-Benz ...

In the late 1960s, a Japanese automaker took a bold leap with an unconventional engine that defied traditional design.

Felix Wankel’s engine was conceived during a dream. In it, 17-year-old Felix was driving his car to a concert. When he arrived, he bragged to his friends that his car used a new type of engine ...

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

Today, the car is remembered as a cult hero ... The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine with 345bhp, giving them ...

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 ...

Most of the Turbine Cars were scrapped, but nine survived and are still around today. For most enthusiasts, the rotary engine, initially designed by German engineer Felix Wankel, is synonymous ...

Mazda is working on new engines. The brand is working with partners for electric drives and is developing a new combustion ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive landscape as a mass-produced internal combustion engine that eschews such unsightly items as pistons, valves and camshafts.

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 ...