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 ...

the Mazda Luce, the Ro 80 set an early precedent for the rotary engine's usage in vehicles other than specialist sports cars and toolroom prototypes. However, persistent reliability problems ...

To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... though it does have some ...

Mazda isn't ready to give up on bringing the ... This development group has the hard task of trying to make the rotary stack up to modern internal combustion engines in terms of emissions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rumor has it that Mazda is preparing to resurrect its RX-7 nameplate and it will be powered by a next-generation rotary engine. Despite previous reports that the Japanese automaker is no longer ...