The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s. The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper. However ...

Mazda usually gets credit for being the first brand to use the Wankel rotary engine. This defunct German automaker begs to ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

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The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and ... then you can slap a turbocharged single-rotor Wankel in there, and add power while actually cutting weight. Dahm's latest project is to swap ...