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 ...

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

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 ...

Is the rotary sports car revival really happening? For over a decade, we’ve been hearing Mazda say it will bring it back in ...

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.

While some people treat them gingerly, many people drive these cars hard. Aftermarket performance parts like turbochargers will also negatively impact engine reliability. The Wankel rotary story ...

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 ...

When people think of Japanese cars, they usually picture rock-solid reliability. That’s not always the reality of ownership.

This range may skew higher for luxury vehicles and high-end sports cars. Here are a few specific examples of factors that may vary ... One example is Mazda with its Renesis rotary engine. This lives ...