How many rotors are too many? While most Mazda engine builders and tuners wouldn’t dare to build an engine with more than four rotors, a company out of New Zealand has built a six-rotor engine for the ...

While Mazda is bringing back the Wankel engine as a range extender, aficionados wish to see the rotary unit delivering power straight to the wheels. And in an age when more and more carmakers commit ...

It takes a unique person to build a Mazda RX-7. Finding one in decent condition is just about as hard as finding a Nissan 240SX that hasn't been power slid by eight different owners. And even when you ...

It's been more than a decade since Mazda finally killed off the RX-8, and ever since then, the Japanese automaker has continually teased us with the promise of a new rotary-powered sports car that ...

Few Japanese sports cars are as iconic as the Mazda RX-7 and few are more popular for engine swaps. Of all the engine swapped RX-7s that we’ve come across over the years, this is one of the most ...

Japanese tuning, in its purest form, encompasses a representation of style and functionality not often captured here in the States. While there may be thousands of classic and current Japanese ...

Every once in a while, a revolutionary new design or concept takes the automotive industry by storm. In the 2020s, it's been electric vehicles, but just a few decades earlier, the rotary engine was ...

If it weren’t for Mazda, the rotary engine developed by German mechanical engineer Felix Wankel might have never seen series-production applications on such a large scale. The RX-7 is arguably the ...

The oil crisis of the early 1970s nearly forced Mazda to abandon rotary engine designs due to their fuel consumption, at a time of downsizing in the industry. But the existing 12A engine family that ...