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

Instead of being carbureted like most other engines of the time, the 3.6-liter Wankel featured direct fuel injection. The next year, Mercedes debuted yet another C 111 called the C 111-II ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two ...

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 C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp ... the C111-II had a 0-62mph time of just 4.9sec. However, even Mercedes’ engineers couldn’t make it work properly, citing ...

The only cars in recent times to utilise a Wankel rotary engine have been Mazdas – the RX-8 being the most recent. But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles ...