Call it resilience or sheer stubbornness, but Mazda still wants to include rotary engines in its future lineup. Of course, ...

The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure ...

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, ...

Mazda’s rotary engine is coming back in the spotlight, but this time it’s not just a nostalgic callback to the RX-7 glory days. Instead, it’s quietly shaping the brand’s electrified future. Rather ...

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, the ...

Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) has been recognized with a Product Launches award in the 2024 Just Auto Excellence Awards, particularly for its innovative approach to integrating the rotary engine ...

Many mainstream automakers are moving away from sports cars. But not Mazda, which seems set to offer two different models. We’ve already reported on the company’s planning for what will become the ...

Just as teen fashion from the ’90s has resurfaced at your nearest Target (Why???), everything old is apparently new again. Honda brought back the Integra, the Prelude is due next, and a Toyota exec ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...