Mazda's last attempt at a rotary was for a range extender, but it says its next one will actually power the car and not just ...

Mazda confirms its next rotary engine won't just be a range extender. Here's what the direct-drive rotary-hybrid shift could ...

Mazda’s iconic rotary engine might finally drive the wheels directly again, rather than sit under the hood as a hot rod ...

The executive that Car spoke with was Moritz Oswald, who is a project manager and supervisor for product planning and ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

The rotary engine, previously a staple in Mazda's lineup, is an engine design that foregoes the round piston and singular chamber of a regular reciprocal internal combustion engine. Instead, the ...

Designed and championed by self-taught engineer Felix Wankel, the rotary engine is now most closely associated with Japanese automaker Mazda. Many of the greatest Mazdas ever made, including the RX-7 ...

Mazda 13B rotary engine in a white Mazda RX-7 engine bay. - TTTNIS/Wikimedia Commons When it comes to unconventional engine design, few exceed the Wankel rotary in terms of weirdness. Despite that, ...

If it all that sounds confusing, this story started when Hans Greimel read in Nikkei and Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun that Mazda whas given up on the rotary engine. When he contacted the company, the ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...