Mazda is one of the only automotive companies that has commercially used rotary engines, starting with the Cosmo Sport (also known as the 110S) in 1967. Other popular rotary engine-powered ...

While there have been many attempts to develop and commercialize pistonless rotary engines, there are only two versions that have had any degree of real success outside of a lab: the Wankel engine ...

News Culture Soviet Five-Pointed Rotary Is the Final Boss of Wankel Engines The Russian Pentastar is pretty different from its American counterpart. Peter Holderith Oct 20, 2023 4:00 PM EDT ...

Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card.A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are ...

Rotary engines are pretty much in the past now, except for a few automakers out there, and if you are not sure why that is, we hve got the answer for you.

By 1991, Mazda had run out of time -- the 60th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1992 would not allow rotary engines. Fortunately, Mazda engineers had devised a doozy of an engine for the 1991 ...

Mazda will unveil a new rotary-powered sports car concept at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show later this month.The concept should prove popular with fans of the brand, who have bemoaned the lack of a ...