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

Along with its contemporary, 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 ...

Subsequently, rotary-engined cars were banned at La Sarthe, but the 1991 win demonstrated that when properly developed, a rotary engine could compete with, and beat, the best piston-propelled ...

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.

Dahm's latest project is to swap an NA Miata's four-cylinder out for a compact rotary engine. But unlike other ... but still light enough to sit with the stock cars, and not so overwhelmingly ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, 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 ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and ... 5,000 horsepower sounds entirely ridiculous for any engine, much less a rotary engine. But it's actually far more ...

boasts a maximum driving range for cars in its class. “The rotary engine was the only option that could be housed in the vehicle’s body alongside a motor drive system to ensure a certain level ...