The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was the RX-8, discontinued in 2011. Mazda has not given up on the Wankel though, with ...

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

Put simply, it was because the RX-8 was just too darned expensive to run. Regardless of whether I had the Wankel wailing to the 9000rpm red line at every opportunity or drove around like there was ...

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 ...

The RX-8 launched for the 2004 model year in the United States. Production began in April 2003. Power came from a two-rotor Wankel engine with a 1.3-liter displacement. It made 238 horsepower and ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s smooth operation was ... prone to excessive wear on the rotor’s tips. The Mazda RX-8 came equipped with a six-speed manual transmission and ...