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 ...

Instead of being carbureted like most other engines of the time, the 3.6-liter Wankel featured direct fuel injection. The next year, Mercedes debuted yet another C 111 called the C 111-II ...

The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp ... the C111-II had a 0-62mph time of just 4.9sec. However, even Mercedes’ engineers couldn’t make it work properly, citing ...

the gorgeous Bruno Sacco-designed C111-II concept was powered by an upgraded four-rotor Wankel. Photo: Mercedes-Benz AG Mounted in the middle of the chassis, the experimental engine developed 349 ...

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 ...