The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

Behind that ambiguous statement is more bad news. Japanese newspapers, according to AN, are reporting that the range extender has been officially scrapped. If it's true that the rotary engine has been ...

With big power in an affordable and practical package, the Mazdaspeed3 was a hot hatch that was way ahead of its time.

Eighty-five years on from the night when Dr Felix Wankel allegedly dreamed of piloting his own car powered by an engine that was half turbine and half reciprocating, the rotary engine has ...

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, ...