Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

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.

Thus rotary engines tend to have high specific outputs ... while the C111-II had a 0-62mph time of just 4.9sec. However, even Mercedes’ engineers couldn’t make it work properly, citing ...

Anyone who questioned the reliability of a rotary engine would have been silenced by an ear-piercing soundtrack bouncing off the trees and Armco somewhere in Northwestern France just before 4 pm ...

As the automotive industry embraces the electric revolution, one automaker stands firm in its commitment to an engine type that has long been considered a relic of the past: the rotary engine. But now ...

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