The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure ...
The 1970s were full of strange automotive experiments, but few were as unlikely as a compact Japanese pickup powered by a ...
Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a multi-faceted individual whose expertise spans the worlds of library and information science, environmental advocacy, and – perhaps surprisingly – the automotive ...
In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...
How many rotors are too many? While most Mazda engine builders and tuners wouldn’t dare to build an engine with more than four rotors, a company out of New Zealand has built a six-rotor engine for the ...
Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...
Japanese automakers Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda convened today to announce their collaborative efforts in preserving internal combustion engines by developing a new generation of clean and efficient ...