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.

Rotary engines have plenty of quirks, but they can still put up some impressive power figures. Here are some of the most ...

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

The higher the rpm, the better it goes, Manny Barreiros says of his 1967 NSU Wankel Spider, the first rotary-powered production car. Ironically perh ...

The global wankel engines market is growing due to increase in application in the automotive and aircraft Industries to fuel the product demand, and advancements in internal combustion ...

The return of the Wankel engine does not resemble its prior use The R-EV powertrain employs a single-rotor Wankel engine generator that, unlike the most recent RX-8, is not connected to the wheels.

For a time, the Wankel rotary engine seemed like the future. In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal-combustion production car not ...

The Wankel rotary engine found success in the automotive market. American automakers, including AMC, Ford, and General Motors, expressed interest in using Wankel engine designs.

Since Wankel’s departure, the community has anxiously awaited its replacement, which the museum's assistant director of interpretation, Tony Pasour said might be, “even cooler,” than the T-Rex. On ...