If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda ... Granted, some of these vehicles were just basic toolroom prototypes or conceptualizations (some with more ...

Mazda wasn’t the first to experiment with rotary engines, but they’re the automaker that perfected the technology and earned it a place in automotive history. Also known as the Wankel engine ...

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 ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive landscape as a mass-produced internal combustion engine that eschews such unsightly items as pistons, valves and camshafts.