Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

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

Felix Wankel, a German engineer ... However, John DeLorean was at the helm of Chevrolet Motor Division at the time and canceled the program, reportedly because it cost too much.

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 ...