Mazda’s latest patent has reignited hopes for the return of the rotary engine, but will it make its way into production ...

Mazda’s latest patent signals a return of the legendary rotary engine, reimagined as a hybrid power source for a new ...

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.

Both 787Bs were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

tri-turbo Y12 rotary engine. If that doesn't make any sense, you're not alone. Skip back 15 years when Tyson Garvin, founder and innovator at Apex Manufacturing & Design, got a wild hair up his ...

The new supercharged Ford Megazilla crate engine is firing shots across the bow of Chevy and Dodge super-V-8s. Mazda wasn’t ...

They are, after all, the only manufacturer currently building Wankel rotary engines. The nature of the rotary engine - where the intake and combustion chambers are separate - makes the design well ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

And while Mazda does have the rotary hybrid MX-30 R-EV crossover now—where the rotary engine acts purely as a generator to charge batteries—for Moro to come out at this juncture and announce ...

And yet, last month Mazda was putting journalists in a Mazda2 RE Range Extender, an electric car using a 0.33-liter rotary to power its lithium-ion batteries when the charge runs down. With a 75 ...