What killed the rotary engine? Wankel engines have struggled to compete with piston cylinder engines, despite their many ...

Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

The last production car with a rotary engine ended its run over a decade ago. But, Mazda attempts to keep the flame alive ...

The company doubled down on its rotary-powered swan song for 1991, the final season that allowed rotary engines — which is how Mazdaspeed managed to slip a Wankel engine into a championship that ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The rotary engine is one of the most pleasing solutions in engineering history. Where conventional engines convert the lateral push and pull movement of pistons into ...

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 ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised its sleek design and named the vehicle its Car of the Year. Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ...

As a result, very few GS Birotors survive today. The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine with 345bhp, giving them top ...

Jim Payne] Diamond Aircraft launched its first single-engine piston airplane into the European market in 1992 with the two-seat Dimona—later Diamond—DV20 Katana, powered by a Diamond Wankel ...