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

The end of the war saw Wankel spending several months in a French prison for his wartime involvement. Work on the engine resumed in 1951 with funding from NSU Motorenwerke AG. The first working ...

The work done by a rotary engine doesn't need ... they entered into an agreement with Japanese company Mazda to develop Wankel rotary engines for its cars. The first Mazda cars with rotary engines ...

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 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 ...

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.

The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp ... However, even Mercedes’ engineers couldn’t make it work properly, citing reliability and durability issues and potential ...