The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

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 has never been scared to try something different, and its 1990s luxury coupe embodies this approach as well as any ...

The Mazda MX-30 is still soldiering on like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Japanese domestic market. There, Mazda fitted the MX-30 with a combustion engine. Japanese buyers ...

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 ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...

Find out how emissions regulations killed Mazda's three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, just as it was getting started in the ...

Although production of the mass-produced Wankel engine ended when the last 2012 Mazda RX-8 rolled off the assembly line, the Japanese automaker hasn't given up development of its signature rotary ...