However, practical problems cause it to underperform ... What does the future hold for the Wankel rotary engine? Most likely more of the same. Mazda will continue to support the engine, and ...

Mazda will not give up on the rotary engine. The appeal of the spinning triangles must have hypnotized the entire engineering department more than 50 years ago, and so they keep trying to make ...

Discover the wild story of Mazda's REPU, the fascinating and flawed rotary-powered pickup truck experiment from the 1970s.

To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... though it does have some problems. Add CarBuzz to your Google News feed. While Wankel rotaries ...

Mazda became the first auto manufacturer in the world to mass-produce rotary engines in the 1960s. Problems involving fuel efficiency and other issues spelled the death knell of the engine, and in ...

Mazda has already put the rotary engine back into limited production, using a small single-rotor 830-cc version that produces a peak of 74 hp to act as a range-extender in the MX-30 R-EV ...

Was the rotary engine a motoring dead ... Despite their problems, rotary engines are often tipped for a comeback, especially by Mazda, the main supporter of their virtues. There was the RX-Vision ...

Regardless of the improvements made in the next-generation rotary engine, we expect to see it being used for extended-range electric vehicles and Mazda’s Skyactiv technology to be incorporated.

Even with the rotary engine silent and the car static ... huge engineering challenges to overcome and problems to solve. Here at Mazda’s Dartford HQ, a steady stream of folk come by to ...

The rotary engine has been a feature of Mazda’s cars since the 1960s ... the car can negate the regular problems of hybrids being too heavy and produce something really appealing.