Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two ...

such as gasoline and diesel engines. The four-stroke cycle of an automobile engine is detailed, highlighting the roles of intake, compression, power, and exhaust strokes. The film also introduces ...

Remember rotary engines? The Felix Wankel-developed (stop tittering at the back ... based on a mind-bending movement that seem to defy logic (you can see a great animation here, though). But the basic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.