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

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

However, due to the design of the rotary engine, there is no way to keep the oil lubricating the seals out of the combustion chamber. Mazda engines include an injector pump which pushes small ...

While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of fuel and emitting lots of noxious gases into the atmosphere ...

As interesting as this concept is, it still has a long way to go before reaching production lines, not to mention its applications may be limited ...

Its launch marked Mazda's first rotary engine offering since it discontinued the Mazda RX-8 in 2012. To be precise, however, the MX-30 Skyactive R-EV uses its small, single-rotor rotary engine as ...

Rotary engines do have several advantages over conventional ... the e-tron had all the benefits of a small electric car but with the reassurance of extra range. Mazda says its rotary range ...

That’s because the new rotary engine is being used in the MX-30 EV plug-in hybrid as a small and innovative range extender. As a result the new rotary engine is a much lower-output unit than ...