Mazda RX-8 had an MSRP of just over $26,000 and recently changed hands for half that sum at auction. Was it a good deal?

Mazda is notorious for putting rotary engines under the hood of its cars, but here are six models from other manufacturers you might not know about.

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

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive ... and a significant weight savings over the current RX-8, which isn't exactly a porker as it is. Supposedly, the new rotary ...

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.

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

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 ...

Introduced in 2004, the RX-8 reignited the popular rotary engine in the US. It offered a zippy roadster that was well equipped, stylish and sporty, powered by a 1.3-liter rotary-cylinder that was ...

Put simply, it was because the RX-8 was just too darned expensive to run. Regardless of whether I had the Wankel wailing ... because Mazda’s rotary engine has a lot going for it.

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012 ...