The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper ... he bragged to his friends that his car used a new type of engine – half turbine, half reciprocating.

Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent ...

We have some very sad news to report, rotor-heads fans: Don't expect a new rotary-powered vehicle ... is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small ...

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

At the time, the Wankel was still a relatively unknown specialist powerplant, and because this was its first proper introduction to the mass market, NSU provided extensive design studies detailing ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always ... Like the classic 13B engine that the current Renesis is still based on, the new 16X would use two rotors, though enlarged to 800cc each for a total ...

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 ...

But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles, as a new exhibition at the Audi museum in Ingolstadt will show. “Revolution – 60 years of the NSU/Wankel engine ...