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 ...

Rotary engines such as the Wankel have strange shapes that can be difficult to machine (as evidenced by the specialized production machines and patents in the 70s), which means it lends itself well to ...

YouTuber Warped Perception built a transparent Wankel rotary engine in his shop, and the resulting footage of the combustion process is absolutely stunning. Rotary engines are one of many mechanical ...

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

Typically, when we think of legacy brands that have employed the use of the Wankel rotary engine in the past, Mazda is virtually the only automaker that comes to mind. After all, the Japanese marque ...

This paper describes two types of computer models which have been developed to analyze the performance of both premixedcharge and direct-injection stratified-charge Wankel engines. The models are ...

Mazda is looking to bring back the rotary engine, and along with it a Mobile Carbon Capture system that should drastically ...

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.