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

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles ... The last model was the RX-8, discontinued in 2011. Mazda has not given up on the Wankel though, with concept cars such as the ...

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 ...

Put simply, it was because the RX-8 was just too darned expensive to run. Regardless of whether I had the Wankel wailing to ... because Mazda’s rotary engine has a lot going for it.

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

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 ...

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 ...