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 ...

Sadly, the only remaining rotary in a vehicle other than a concept car doesn't even power its wheels, being the one-rotor range extender in the Mazda MX-30. These engines certainly have the ...

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.

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 ...

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

Not to undersell the Cosmo – Mazda’s first ever rotary production vehicle and currently a car achieving six-figure sums on the used market ... rotor “10A” engines units designated ...

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, ...