The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

Idled for 11 years, Mazda Motor Corp.'s famed rotary engine is set to roar back to life this spring, this time helping to power a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The rotary engine, which Mazda was the first ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

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Dan Clougher is an automotive journalist and former classic and sports car dealer with hands-on experience across luxury, performance, and collector vehicles. Before joining CarBuzz, he managed his ...

Typically, when we think of the Wankel rotary engine as a whole, we first think of Mazda. Back in the early 1960s, Mazda was keenly interested in developing the rotary engine, specifically the Wankel ...

The rotary engine will make a comeback, but it won’t be coming from the brand most recognised for using it in high-performance cars, Mazda, instead emerging from a Chinese manufacturer. According to ...