Most car enthusiasts associate the term “rotary engine” with Felix Wankel’s invention, developed in the 1950s and most ...
You hear endless myths about the Mazda RX-7, from breathless praise of its “magic” to horror stories about blown apex seals.
Many Mazda employees want a new rotary sports car, and this could be the “push” the company needs, but at what cost?
Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...
The R130 was a very rare model, produced for only three years and with fewer than 1,000 units built. It was also notable as the only front-wheel-drive Mazda model powered by a rotary engine until the ...
Think you know everything about rotary engines? Well have you ever heard of the bi-rotary engine that mixes pistons and ...
Mazda’s interest in the rotary engine didn’t disappear with the end of the RX-7. Over the years, rumors, patent filings, and ...
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 ...
Every story dealing with a new rotary engine from Mazda lands in a different place on the matrix of possibilities between “Coming soon!” and “Never gonna happen!” In 2011 it was speculated that the ...
How does a mid-engine Corvette with a rotary powerplant sound to you? Two great tastes that could have gone great together – and that GM recently commended in a series it's been running called "Retro ...