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 ...

We get behind the wheel of a rotary-engined Mazda RX-8 – and explain the pleasures and pitfalls of buying one. The post 2008 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You probably are, as you came here looking to find out more about the pictured Mazda RX-8, which was looking for ... It comes with a rotary engine that has a 1.3-liter displacement and was ...

Wankel engines ... not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor design one might see in a Mazda RX-7, for example.

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.

This comes straight from Masamichi Kogai, the CEO of Mazda, which is the only company ... is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight ...

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 ...

Mazda uses a rotary engine as a range-extender for its MX-30 R-EV, and previously used such a motor on the RX-8 sports car. Also known as a Wankel engines, after creator Felix Wankel, a rotary ...