The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

One of the first major automotive shows covered globally is the Tokyo Auto Salon, annually held in January. It serves as the ...

It’s common in this line of work to stumble upon a story while researching for another story. Digging through archives and ...

The Goda Bankin AZ-1 uses the venerable 13B rotary engine, which is famous for powering many Mazda RX-7s across several ...

Launched in the late 1960s, the Ro 80 wasn't just the world's first mass-produced sedan with rotary power, but also one of the most innovative production vehicles of its era. Follow us: The rotary ...

Got a burning question or simply need some advice with problems you’ve encountered while wrenching on your current/future projects? Ask our automotive guru Eric Hsu anything—literally, he’s going to ...

We look at why Mazda introduced the three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, and why it only ever saw service in the Cosmo coupe ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...

Many mainstream automakers are moving away from sports cars. But not Mazda, which seems set to offer two different models. We’ve already reported on the company’s planning for what will become the ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Mazda’s first rotary-engined production car since the 2012 RX-8 – the MX-30 R-EV – ...

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