Mazda is notorious for putting rotary engines under the hood of its cars, but here are six models from other manufacturers ...

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

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

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.

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 ...

Unless, apparently, you're rotary ... Wankel in there, and add power while actually cutting weight. Dahm's latest project is to swap an NA Miata's four-cylinder out for a compact rotary engine.

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.