In the midst of the automotive industry's sweeping shift toward electrification, Mazda, a brand long defined by its ...

This is the latest concept with a rotary engine. The Iconic SP concept, seen as a Mazda RX-7 successor, was first shown at ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

The Mazda Vision X-Coupe is a four-door sedan with sleek lines that packs a rotary engine and 503 horsepower that brings ...

The sporty Vision X-Coupe can drive nearly 100 miles in electric-only mode, but Mazda said a unique new plug-in ...

Mazda is determined to bring the rotary engine back in a production car, but not quite the way you remember it. The Japanese automaker wowed everyone two years ago at the Japan Mobility Show when it ...

At long last, the rotary engine is back. Over a decade after the RX-8 was cancelled, Mazda has announced an all-new rotary powerplant that's going into production. It's just not in an RX-8 successor, ...

After what feels like countless news stories anticipating its return, the rotary engine is officially back as a backup generator for the new Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV. Whereas the regular MX-30 is a ...

The Mazda Vision X-Coupe is a sleek, four-door crossover coupe that builds on the brand’s long-running Kodo—Soul of Motion ...

After years of false hope, Mazda is finally building a mass production model with a rotary engine. That’s something that hasn’t occurred in over a decade as the RX-8 was discontinued in June of 2012.

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

Rotary might be a good name for this sort of engine, if the name wasn't already taken. Everything inside the crankcase rotates, but unlike a Wankel-style rotary engine, this design uses a piston with ...