Mazda’s latest patent has reignited hopes for the return of the rotary engine, but will it make its way into production ...

The Mazda MX-30 R-EV combines a plug-in hybrid system with a unique rotary engine—offering the best of both worlds. Is this ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

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 ...

tri-turbo Y12 rotary engine. If that doesn't make any sense, you're not alone. Skip back 15 years when Tyson Garvin, founder and innovator at Apex Manufacturing & Design, got a wild hair up his ...

Both 787Bs were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

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 ...

And while Mazda does have the rotary hybrid MX-30 R-EV crossover now—where the rotary engine acts purely as a generator to charge batteries—for Moro to come out at this juncture and announce ...

Mazda is once again manufacturing the rotary engine, but before you get too excited thinking it’ll be found in a sporty Mazda RX-7 successor, best temper those expectations. That’s because the ...

Idled for 11 years, Mazda Motor Corp.'s famed rotary engine is set to roar back to life this spring, this time helping to power a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The rotary engine, which Mazda was the ...