The combination of Mazda CEO's rotary R&D announcement plus the gorgeous rotary concept add up to a new 350 hp-plus sports ...

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

By the end of its production run in the early 2000s, the Mazda RX-7 rotary engine made as much as 276 hp. The RX-8 followed with another chapter for the Wankel engine. The Mazda RX-8 rotary engine ...

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 ...

However, the only major manufacturer still working on Wankel engines for cars is Mazda. The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was ...

On Friday 22 June, the last ever Renesis rotary engined car – the RX-8 ... introduce the engine in a mainstream model. With the engine’s roots buried deep in Germany, Mazda had an interest ...

The iconic rotary car engine ... the death knell of the engine, and in 2012 production was terminated when the RX-8 sports car became obsolete. But within Mazda, engineers maintained a passion ...