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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 ...

So. I have this 1988 BMW E30 325is that I bought last summer. I named it “the FrankenThirty” because its salvage title turned out to include the fact that the rear two-thirds of the car matched its ...

The new supercharged Ford Megazilla crate engine is firing shots across the bow of Chevy and Dodge super-V-8s. Mazda wasn’t the first to experiment with rotary engines, but they’re the ...

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Idled for 11 years, Mazda Motor Corp.'s famed rotary engine is set to roar back to life this spring, this time helping to power a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The rotary engine, which Mazda was the ...

Few automotive rumours have persisted like the one concerning the return of the rotary engine, and Mazda has now confirmed its future plans for the unique design – although they’re not quite ...

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 ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

Mark it down, auto enthusiasts.Mazda built its last rotary engine on Friday, June 22. By final, we mean the line that assembledRenesis engines for Mazda's RX-8 sports car was idled, and there are ...