Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

Both rotary engines and piston engines utilize internal combustion and share the same phases of intake, compression, power, and exhaust. But beyond this similarity, they are very different in ...

High oil and fuel consumption meant that rotary engines were never as popular as more typical internal combustion engines. Poor maintenance from owners who did not fully understand their engines ...

Speaking of GM, the most noteworthy vehicles to come out of the GM Rotary Combustion Engine (GMRCE) program were unquestionably their prototype rotary Corvettes. Developed specially as a showcase ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

According to Mazda, the new engine is “close to the ultimate combustion” delivering high fuel efficiency ... Additionally, it ...

it is a reciprocating engine that works as a rotary. Imagine an ICE with a single piston. Apart from going up and down, it also rotates inside the combustion chamber of the Avadi prototype.

This development group has the hard task of trying to make the rotary stack up to modern internal combustion engines in terms of emissions and fuel-economy standards. Neither factor were ever ...

CAR magazine UK reports on Mazda's latest engine developments – Skyactiv-Z – and what it means for the future of combustion power ...

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 ...