Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card. A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are reasons ...

For a time, the Wankel rotary engine seemed like the future. In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal-combustion production car not powered ...

Patents lodged by Mazda appear to show the next-gen rotary as a mild hybrid that actually uses its rotary engine to drive the rear wheels. At the renamed Japan Mobility Show last year, Mazda revealed ...

For what seems like an eternity, Mazda has constantly teased its most ardent supporters with the possibility that it would resurrect its rotary engine that the automaker made famous in its cars and ...

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