So, the rotary-powered Mazda is back. The unveiling of the RX-Vision concept at the 2015 Tokyo motor show marks a return to Mazdas running undersized engines which overdeliver on power, a design of ...

Long gone, but hardly forgotten, the Mazda RX-7 arrived on the scene in the late 1970s as an affordable sports car with the Japanese automaker's peculiar Wankel rotary engine. But, strange engine ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back as ...

The history of the automobile has been dominated by vehicles equipped with piston-firing engines. Rarely does something completely different come along, and when it does, it usually fails miserably.

*WAUKEGAN, Illinois (February 23, 1973) – Culminating over nine years of continuing research and testing, Outboard Marine Corporation today introduced the world’s first rotary combustion-powered ...

The idea of a Rotary Club in Santa Monica originated with four businessmen in the fall of 1920. Ernest English took the lead in organizing since he had been a Rotarian and had some knowledge of ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer who invented the rotary engine, is born on Aug. 13, 1902, in Lahr, Germany. Wankel became fascinated with internal combustion engines at an early age and began ...