A new Mazda sports car will be built alongside the Miata—and it could have a rotary engine. Here’s everything we know. Mazda has a bad habit of teasing fans with beautiful concept cars that it never ...
The rotary engine makes a comeback for cars and drones as gasoline gains popularity as a complement to electric motors.
Rotary engines tend to conjure images of a few famous sports cars, yet a surprising number of coupes, sedans, concepts, and even workhorses quietly packed spinning triangles under their hoods. By ...
Call it resilience or sheer stubbornness, but Mazda still wants to include rotary engines in its future lineup. Of course, making that happen has been a challenge, to say the least. On their own, ...
AOL: This day in car history: The first rotary engines rev up
Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...
The Peugeot prototype powered by a 3-rotor 20B engine delivers an extreme rotary engine note at 11,000 RPM. This video captures full throttle runs and high-RPM performance, showcasing the unique sound ...
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, ...
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 ...
Fast Lane Only on MSN: Innovation came early with the 1967 NSU Ro 80 and its rotary engine