Rotary-powered Mazda Luces are very hard to come by ... Available with the 12A or 12B engine, it only lasted for the first generation of the Capella's run (1970-1978). Mazda RX-2s are pretty ...

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s. The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper. However ...

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012 ...

much less a rotary engine. But it's actually far more feasible than one might expect. Let's take the Mazda 787B's R26b, as an example. This engine produces about 690 horsepower in race-trim ...

And that, in turn, means that it is very difficult to turn a profit on vehicles with rotary engines, particularly for a small automaker like Mazda. There is a sliver of hope, though. "We are the ...

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 ...