Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

The first rotary engines were primarily used for aircraft during World War I, but the design was abandoned due to flaws and inefficiencies. In 1954, German engineer Felix Wankel invented a new ...

To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... In 1960, NSU and US-based aircraft manufacturer Curtiss-Wright elected to try and promote ...

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.