Not long ago we turned your attention to a unique and slightly comedic build that well-known automotive YouTuber Rob Dahm was working on. Dahm, who is a vocal proponent of the Wankel rotary engine, ...

We’ve seen plenty of Mazda RX-7 sports coupes with pushrod LS V8s under the hood in place of their factory rotary engines, but we’ve never heard of someone swapping out a V8 for a rotary. That is, ...

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix Wankel ...

There are many different forms of internal combustion engines, but most use the same basic principle. Explosions in the combustion chamber move pistons up and down to spin a crankshaft. That ...

Few attributes will catapult a sports car from mediocre to memorable faster than a great engine. Taking that knowledge to heart, Mazda created its RX-7 around a very different engine–a rotary–and won ...

If you're not ready to listen to the Brap-Brap soundtrack while checking out the GT styling cues of the stunning Ferrari 456, there's good news and bad news. The first revolves around the fact that ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

Invented by a German but perfected by the Japanese, the Wankel rotary engine is best-known for powering a slew of brilliant ...

With the RX-8 sports car expected to be discontinued after the current model year, Mazda, the last bastion of the Wankel rotary engine, will be without a car in its lineup featuring the free-spinning ...

In the wild and sometimes weird history of automobiles, few vehicles stand out quite like the Mazda Rotary Engine Pickup, or REPU. Produced for just four model years between 1974 and 1977, this ...