Built on a shoestring to undercut Porsche’s 924, the original Mazda RX-7 was a rare sight on British roads. Beguiling balance ...

Mazda has been promising a new flagship rotary sports car for well over a decade now, and despite a few stunning concepts ...

It's as crazy as it sounds. Rolls Royce developed a diesel rotary engine for military applications. Because diesel engines ...

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 ...

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

Rotary engines have always stood apart from traditional piston designs, earning both admiration and skepticism in equal measure. Known for their high-revving nature, compact size, and unmistakable ...

It's not unusual for modern performance cars to make over 200 hp/liter, with ultra-exclusive supercars even breaching the 300 hp/liter mark. Of course, these figures are achieved by forcing massive ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

Internal-combustion engines are making impressive strides in rotational speed. The Lamborghini Temerario has a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 capable of revving to 10,000 rpm over the long haul, and the Red ...

A Mazda RX 7 FD3S powered by a 4 rotor 26B engine revs to an incredible 11000rpm, delivering razor sharp rotary tones and pure high rev sound. No music — only raw rotary engine noise. Missing Kentucky ...

The rotary engine has always been a fascinating piece of automotive engineering. Unlike traditional piston engines, the rotary engine operates with a triangular rotor that spins inside an oval chamber ...

It was back in 2016 when Mazda started propping us up for a next-generation flagship sports car. The Mazda RX Vision Concept was something to behold, with sleek lines and the classic proportions of a ...