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 ...

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

Not a 12-cylinder engine, a triple-turbo 12-rotor engine. A 15.7-liter rotary engine. This is insane, and so is Rob Dahm.

At first, 5,000 horsepower sounds entirely ridiculous for any engine, much less a rotary engine. But it's actually far more feasible than one might expect. Let's take the Mazda 787B's R26b ...

Sadly, the rotary engine basically died off in 2008 when production of the RX-8 sports car ceased. However, a humble little SUV has re-introduced such tech into the modern automotive landscape ...

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

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.

The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the 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 ...

I have already written about LiquidPiston and its XTS-210, but Avadi's idea is even more striking: it is a reciprocating engine that works as a rotary. Imagine an ICE with a single piston.

or rotary, engine. If you ever wondered how these worked, why not print a model? That’s what [Engineering Explained] did. They printed a 1/3 scale model and made a video explaining and ...