Few attributes will catapult a sports car from mediocre to memorable faster than a great engine. Taking that knowledge to heart, Mazda created its RX-7 around a very different engine–a rotary–and won ...

Not long ago we turned your attention to a unique and slightly comedic build that well-known automotive YouTuber Rob Dahm was working on. Dahm, who is a vocal proponent of the Wankel rotary engine, ...

The LS engine swap is legendary in the automotive community. The Chevrolet Small-Block V8 engine from General Motors has found its way into thousands of unconventional makes and models, creating some ...

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix Wankel ...

There are many different forms of internal combustion engines, but most use the same basic principle. Explosions in the combustion chamber move pistons up and down to spin a crankshaft. That ...

Putting a Mazda rotary engine into a badge-engineered Holden sedan seemed like a good idea at the time. But, the 13B engine's lack of torque became a noticeable problem in a 3,472-lb car. When people ...

Amrit has been in love with trucks ever since the first time he rode in his dad's work truck when he was 5 years old. Over the years, he has fallen in love with classic cars and spends all his spare ...

While every enthusiast knows or at least has heard about Mazda legends like the Cosmo Sport, RX-7, RX-8, or the 787B race car, those weren't the only interesting models that the manufacturer has ...

With the RX-8 sports car expected to be discontinued after the current model year, Mazda, the last bastion of the Wankel rotary engine, will be without a car in its lineup featuring the free-spinning ...