The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was the RX-8, discontinued in 2011. Mazda has not given up on the Wankel though, with ...

Mazda is notorious for putting rotary engines under the hood of its cars, but here are six models from other manufacturers ...

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 ...

Take the Wankel engine, or rotary engine, for example. Few automakers have ever created one, and Mazda was the only one to put it into mass production in models like the RX-7 and RX-8. It saw ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...