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 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 ...

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 ...

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.