Mazda engineers have once again been busy at the drawing board, trying to bring rotary technology back into the line-up. One of the main concerns surrounding rotary engines in a modern world is ...

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 wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

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 ...

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 ...

It would have been easy to write rotary engines off the speculative books at Mazda — poor milage and questionable long-term reliability made traditional piston engines seem favorable to many.

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 ...

For those of you old enough to remember what a Spirograph drawing set looked ... Despite their problems, rotary engines are often tipped for a comeback, especially by Mazda, the main supporter ...

Mazda has confirmed that it’s working on a new rotary engine that could see production within five years. The rotary, which last saw production in the RX-8 sports car, has been removed from the ...

2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced ... to-rear balance as all rotary-engined cars. Mazda’s example also features a few tweaks, not least a later 12A engine from an RX-7, and an RX ...

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...