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 ...

Mazda has not given up on the Wankel though, with concept cars such ... However, this all must be taken with a grain of salt. The RX-7 and 8 are after all, sports cars. While some people treat ...

a rotary Wankel engine. It looked like this could be the second coming of the Mazda RX-7. Mazda knew the powertrain would be catnip to enthusiasts. The company touted a “next-generation Skyactiv ...

Star of video games and the silver screen, the third-generation Mazda RX-7 was powerful, balanced, and strikingly beautiful. Power came from a two-rotor Wankel engine with a nominal 1.3-litre ...

As was the case with every other carmaker save Mazda, the Wankel was ultimately abandoned ... car sold in the US market was the Mazda RX-7 although Mazda did offer the engine in other Japanese ...

This comes straight from Masamichi Kogai, the CEO of Mazda, which is the only company ... is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight ...

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