In today’s sports car world, conformity often trumps creativity. Automakers prioritize safe bets like turbocharged four-cylinders, platform sharing, and tech-heavy interiors, rather than taking over ...

Reasons Why The Rotary Engine Is Dead. The Wankel engine was last seen in a production car in the Mazda RX-8, and currently there are no rotary engines in production. Mazda may bring it back in the RX ...

Car enthusiasts said their last goodbyes to the Mazda RX-8, as well as the rotary sports car as a whole, back in 2012 when Mazda discontinued it. While the RX-8 took a different approach to that ...

Mazda's famous rotary engine finally made its big return last year, but it wasn't under the hood of a replacement for the RX-8. In fact, it wasn't even in a performance car at all. Instead, it served ...

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 ...

While every enthusiast knows or at least has heard about Mazda legends like the Cosmo Sport, RX-7, RX-8, or the 787B race car, those weren't the only interesting models that the manufacturer has ...

Changan’s R05E prototype achieves first ignition, signaling renewed interest in rotary engines but for a wilder application.

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

While Rob Dahm’s garage is no stranger to monstrous rotary engines, including four-rotor units cranking out more than 1,000 horsepower, this one is mind-bending. Here we have a massive, ...

RTX in recent years filed patent applications for technologies related to open-rotor engines, though the company insists it remains committed to developing an updated geared turbofan (GTF) for ...

Though a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette is now headed for production, the idea of a Corvette with such an exotic engine location is nothing new. Several such concepts were created, and at the 2019 ...