However, a humble little SUV has re-introduced such tech into the modern automotive landscape, and that got us thinking, what does the future hold for the Mazda rotary engine? Mazda is a Japanese ...

If Mazda is known for anything, it's its use of the venerable and unique Wankel rotary engine. The Japanese manufacturer utilized the powerplant for around 50 years as it continually developed the ...

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 ...

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 wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

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 ...

It would have been easy to write rotary engines off the speculative books at Mazda — poor milage and questionable long-term reliability made traditional piston engines seem favorable to many.