Mazda has always done things differently, and there is no better example of that than the rotary sports cars the company used to make. While most other Japanese carmakers were focusing on high-tech, ...

The Willys Jeep diehards haven’t gone anywhere. They’re still out wheeling on slick rock and muddy trails, climbing stuff that modern Wrangler guys would never dream of in their tricked-out Rubicons ...

The Wankel rotary engine was made popular by Mazda, who built rotary style engines from in production cars such as the RX-7, RX-8, and others from 1967 to 2012. The Wankel rotary engine is unique in ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...

Most car enthusiasts associate the term “rotary engine” with Felix Wankel’s invention, developed in the 1950s and most commonly associated with Mazda. However, more than half a century before the ...

It is tough to admit that car enthusiasts make a very small percentage of car buyers. While they are the most vocal of the bunch, the harsh reality is that they don’t bring carmakers the biggest ...

Mazda made a splash in the market in 1990, launching the Eunos Cosmo with the three-rotor 20B engine. Compared with contemporary Wankel rotary engines, the 20B's extra rotor beefed the compact ...

If you were looking to own a classic bike that you’d never see another one of at a bike meet, the Van Veen OCR1000 would be a very good place to start. Built by the Dutch Kreidler importer, Henk van ...

Not only are Chinese carmakers redefining the world of EVs, but one of them is now taking on the Wankel rotary engine. Originally designed by German engineer Felix Wankel and later refined into a ...

Launched in the late 1960s, the Ro 80 wasn't just the world's first mass-produced sedan with rotary power, but also one of the most innovative production vehicles of its era. The rotary motor, also ...