The second-generation of Mazda's beloved RX-7 is often left out of the conversation. Here's why it shouldn't be.

The Wankel engine is presently being produced for passenger cars in both Europe and Japan, and we've driven one. It was the NSU RO80, a sweet-running four-door sedan with excellent aerodynamics ...

Pity the nifty front spoiler, formed in part by placing the RX-0 as far aftwards as possible, never became reality. 2011AudiA1 e-tron. Unlike a piston engine, a Wankel engine spins--literally.

W hen the 1967 Mazda Cosmo sports car hit the market, it was considered one of the most futuristic and cutting-edge models on offer at the time. This was chiefly due to its use of a Wankel engine ...

While the Wankel engine design is fascinating on paper, ... The chassis was shortened by 6.5 inches to 90 inches, and the front and rear track increased to 56 inches.

Unless you're a world-class endurance racer, you'll likely never get to drive one of Mazda's best rotary engine-powered cars. In 1991, the Mazda 787B made history as the first Japanese-made car to ...

While GM's Wankel experience was only active for just less than four years and went nowhere, two interesting Corvette concept cars were built, known simply as the 2-Rotor (XP-987GT) and 4-Rotor.

Consider – the first ever family sedan purpose-built around a twin-rotor Wankel engine, with class-leading aerodynamics, fully-independent suspension and modernism all about it. Front-wheel ...

Compared to the then-standard Rambler inline-six engine, this rotary was incredibly short, and would have allowed for packaging solutions like transverse front or rear, or, if Rambler was really ...

The Mazda isn't a mid-engined car like the 787B, though; it's much more like the MADBUL drift car, with its engine up front. That engine is the 33b, developed in partnership with Kiwi Wankel ...

In 1954, Wankel finished designing a rotary piston engine for NSU known as the Drehkolbenmotor (or the DKM). This rotary-valve-controlled 250cc motorcycle engine was based on the company's Lux and ...