The world of liquids influenced the Nagare’s design. Mazda’s design team looked at the way liquids behave, drawing ...

Engines are often the heart and soul of any vehicle, but not all start with a favorable reputation. Some engines, initially ...

Good news, everyone! Mazda is not only reassembling a dedicated team of engineers for rotary engine development, as we’ve reported earlier, but today it also announced its intention to expedite ...

Mazda’s Rotary engine is nothing new. It was invented by Felix Wenkel, a German engineer, in the early 1950s. But a masterpiece doesn’t have to be new to be admired. It offered an elegant alternative ...

Rotary might be a good name for this sort of engine, if the name wasn't already taken. Everything inside the crankcase rotates, but unlike a Wankel-style rotary engine, this design uses a piston with ...

After what feels like countless news stories anticipating its return, the rotary engine is officially back as a backup generator for the new Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV. Whereas the regular MX-30 is a ...

You should premix oil and gas for a rotary engine if the model is has apex seal issues, you plan to race the car, or you ...

Mazda was not the first car manufacturer to put a rotary engine in their cars, but they are the ones that made them popular. Everyone knows about the Mazda’s obsession with rotary engines, they even ...

After years of false hope, Mazda is finally building a mass production model with a rotary engine. That’s something that hasn’t occurred in over a decade as the RX-8 was discontinued in June of 2012.

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix Wankel ...

In the wild and sometimes weird history of automobiles, few vehicles stand out quite like the Mazda Rotary Engine Pickup, or REPU. Produced for just four model years between 1974 and 1977, this ...

At long last, the rotary engine is back. Over a decade after the RX-8 was cancelled, Mazda has announced an all-new rotary powerplant that's going into production. It's just not in an RX-8 successor, ...