Unlike everything else on this list, it's not a car. It's a pickup truck, and the only production pickup truck to ever be fitted with a rotary engine. It was produced from 1974-1977, and used the ...

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.

Since the engine is mounted longitudinally, it powers only the rear wheels, which is a role reversal for the typically ...

In the early 1960s Mazda and NSU joined forces to further develop the rotary engine and had a quasi-official race to see who could bring a rotary-engined car to ... engine being used as a range ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine ... liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would ...

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles ... When he arrived, he bragged to his friends that his car used a new type of engine – half turbine, half reciprocating.

When people think of Japanese cars, they usually picture rock-solid reliability. That’s not always the reality of ownership.

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 first Mazda cars with rotary engines were launched ... within a single cycle of the rotor. In its latest rotary engine design used in the November 2023 Mazda MX-30 Skyactiv R-EV, the Japanese ...

CAR magazine UK reports on Mazda's latest engine developments – Skyactiv-Z – and what it means for the future of combustion ...

Not only is the twin-rotor 1.3L RENESIS rotary engine the only one of its kind, but no other car in the class offers four doors. Add to the mix crisp handling and an entry price of just over $26,000, ...

The chances are slim that a car model that runs solely on a rotary engine will ever roll ... development of carbon-free fuels that can be used in engine vehicles. “Technology does evolve ...