However, a humble little SUV has re-introduced such tech into the modern automotive landscape, and that got us thinking, what does the future hold for the Mazda rotary engine? Mazda is a Japanese ...

Mazda built its last rotary engine on Friday, June 22. By final, we mean the line that assembled Renesis engines for Mazda's RX-8 sports car was idled, and there are currently no plans to restart ...

2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced ... to-rear balance as all rotary-engined cars. Mazda’s example also features a few tweaks, not least a later 12A engine from an RX-7, and an RX ...

And that, in turn, means that it is very difficult to turn a profit on vehicles with rotary engines, particularly for a small automaker like Mazda. There is a sliver of hope, though. "We are the ...

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...

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 wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

One thing Mazda never managed to solve however, was the problem with fuel consumption, and although the latest generation of Renesis rotary engines were far more efficient than its predecessors ...