Mazda Chief Technology Officer Ryuichi Umeshita now admits that the Iconic SP program's biggest challenge is not technical feasibility-it's financial. "Technology-wise, I believe it's possible," ...

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.

Bruno started at Top Speed in 2022 and now serves as Senior Editor for ICE while also training writers across CarBuzz, HotCars, and TopSpeed. A car and motorcycle enthusiast, he enjoys writing about ...

TOKYO — Mazda is going to extremes to keep two iconic products — its rotary engine and its MX-5 Miata sporty car tradition — alive in the age of electrification. The Hiroshima, Japan, automaker is ...

What goes around comes around and around and around. Eleven years after discontinuing it, Mazda has brought back its signature rotary engine in an unusual way. It turned it into a range-extending ...

It’s really, genuinely, actually here: a new Mazda with a rotary engine. The new MX-30 R-EV plug-in hybrid has been revealed. It looks a lot like the regular one, but it swaps a fair bit of battery ...

The rotary engine is finally back at Mazda, though it’s not on a brand-new RX sports model, but on the MX-30. Dubbed the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV, the crossover is a plug-in hybrid and just made its ...