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The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic.

This means it is a reciprocating rotary engine. Yeah, weird stuff. The camshaft is also centrally located in the crankcase ...

Rotary engines -- An article in ... Chrysler has its Hemi, Chevy has its small-block V8, Porsche its flat-6. In an overcrowded, look-alike market, the rotary engine is where the soul of Mazda resides.

Through the 1980s and 1990s the only rotary-powered car sold in the US market was the Mazda RX-7 although Mazda did offer the engine in other Japanese-market models. One of those was a coupe ...

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

Like many of our readers, I have an unhealthy fascination with rotary and other non-reciprocating piston engines. In fact, that very first sentence right there probably alienated most of our saner ...

Engines like the Toyota 2JZ, Porsche flat-six, and Chevy Small Block may have different strengths, weaknesses, and configurations. ... Mazda's 13B rotary engine is another animal entirely.

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder, has firmly jumped into the deep end of the pool with his latest project: The world's only 15.7-liter, tri-turbo Y12 rotary engine. If that doesn't ...

GM’s factory skunkworks turned out this Chevy Vega with a well-engineered all-aluminum small-block in 1972. It didn’t make it to production, but it inspired a generation of hot-rodders!