Mazda’s CEO said the response to the Iconic-SP concept was good enough to restart rotary engine development, too.

Sadly, the only remaining rotary in a vehicle other than a concept car doesn't even power its wheels, being the one-rotor ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

It's never been the fastest car, but who really needs that ... is to swap an NA Miata's four-cylinder out for a compact rotary engine. But unlike other rotary swaps, that usually use a 13b ...

However, the only major manufacturer still working on Wankel engines for cars is Mazda. The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was ...

Then came a three-rotor, which first appeared in the Eunos Cosmo, before peaking with the massively powerful four-rotor in the 787B Le Mans race car, one of the greatest rotary engines ever ...

Is the rotary sports car revival really happening? For over a decade, we’ve been hearing Mazda say it will bring it back in ...

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 ...

Part of Mazda's history with coupes has rested on sports cars powered by rotary engines. In the 1980s and 1990s, the rotary engine propelled RX-7 existed as Mazda's halo sports car. While the RX-7 ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back ...