To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine ... R26B powerplant is arguably the main one. The engine provided the 787b with 700 hp and 448 lb-ft of torque which, in a ...

In the late 1960s, a Japanese automaker took a bold leap with an unconventional engine that defied traditional design.

Many racing classes (notably F1) have banned rotary engines. Of those allowed, the most notable is the Mazda 787B, which won the 1991 24 hours of Le Mans race. What does the future hold for the ...

much less a rotary engine. But it's actually far more feasible than one might expect. Let's take the Mazda 787B's R26b, as an example. This engine produces about 690 horsepower in race-trim ...

Thus rotary engines tend to have high specific outputs ... than the only non-piston-engined car to win at Le Mans – Mazda’s 787B. The car’s 2.6-litre four-rotor unit produced 697bhp ...

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...

Mazda built its last rotary engine on Friday, June 22. By final, we mean the line that assembled Renesis engines for Mazda's RX-8 sports car was idled, and there are currently no plans to restart ...

The Mazda RX-8 came equipped ... were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed ...

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Mazda isn't ready to give up on bringing ... This development group has the hard task of trying to make the rotary stack up to modern internal combustion engines in terms of emissions and fuel ...