Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

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The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ... by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, 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 ...

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder ... and designed and built this insanely improbable Wankel engine with twelve rotors configured in a Y design. Garvin built the Y12 from a solid ...

The first tech to be showcased was a rotary engine, as Mazda had ... initiative continued on with full steam ahead. While 11 C 111's were equipped with Wankel engines, there was a 12th version ...

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Mazda had an interest in this unconventional engine design from the beginning, partnering with NSU which in turn made Felix Wankel’s dream of a rotary engine a reality. When NSU, which was owned ...