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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

In the Eighties a Mazda 323, fitted with a 10,000 r/min three-rotor Wankel engine, took the fight to Audi's Quattro. It was ...

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 ...

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 ...