Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" ...

The Wankel engine's application in the Chevrolet concepts was short-lived. The original concept was meant to be powered by a ...

Dubbed the DKM, it was quite different to what we would now consider to be a more typical rotary engine. Their second design, the KKM, featured a static rotor housing, and is much more in line ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

Rarely does something completely different come along ... We are talking about the Rotary engine. Lacking pistons, spinning furiously and making a noise that can’t be mistaken for anything ...

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 ...

While the company does not exclusively use rotary engines, Mazda’s decision to be different ultimately won out in their favor despite initial mechanical hurdles. Mazda continues to advance their green ...