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 ...

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.

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

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

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 ...

When John Z. Delorean left to create his own car, he envisioned it propelled by a rotary engine as well. In the late sixties and early seventies, many car companies were enamored with the power ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

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 ...

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 ...