The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the ...

Could there possibly be a rotary engine with 12 rotors? The answer is yes, and here's everything we know about it including ...

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

Mazda Eunos Cosmo was released onto the streets to take on European GTs at their own game, but today it is a forgotten & ...

This required removing the keyway on the compressor shaft and withdrawing a seal I later learned was ... kind of elongated inner chamber that a Wankel engine has, and vanes that are flung outward by ...

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2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced its first Wankel rotary-engined car. There is, sadly, no 2017 Mazda RX-anything to celebrate that fact, but thankfully the Hiroshima-based manufacturer ...

On the flip side, though, Wankel engines tend to consume fuel and oil at a high rate of knots, and require regular preventative maintenance of the rotor seals to prevent catastrophic engine failure.

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 ...