The Japanese automaker known as Mazda actually has a pretty unique history that involves both rotary engines and trucks. It's the primary automaker linked to rotary or Wankel engines, as Mercedes-Benz ...

A look at Chevrolet’s 1970s rotary sports car experiment, its mid-engine layout, and why the bold concept never reached ...

Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing ...

Most vehicles use a piston engine similar to the one-cylinder, four-stroke motor in the first car ever made, Karl Benz's Patent Motorwagen. Lately, a more fuel-efficient and emissions-friendly engine ...

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into a single ...

Almost every internal combustion vehicle on the planet today uses the classic piston engine. These run by converting heat energy into reciprocating motion, and then rotary motion that ultimately ...

Rebuilding a race engine isn’t easy, but Mazda Motorsports has it even tougher with a rebuild of one of the most legendary race car engines ever made. The Mazda 787 was the first Japanese and ...

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 ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the plague. It's never been the fastest car, but who really needs that? It's ...