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 ...

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 ...

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.

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s smooth operation was most ... prone to excessive wear on the rotor’s tips. The Mazda RX-8 came equipped with a six-speed manual transmission ...