Browsing Mazda and rotary forums shows people rebuilding ... blowing holes into engine blocks, spraying oil and parts all over the place. Rotary engines do well on the racetrack, that is, when ...

2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced ... to-rear balance as all rotary-engined cars. Mazda’s example also features a few tweaks, not least a later 12A engine from an RX-7, and an RX ...

Mazda isn't ready to give up on bringing the ... This development group has the hard task of trying to make the rotary stack up to modern internal combustion engines in terms of emissions and ...

The rotary engine offers vibration-free operation ... which used so few moving parts. Mazda Acquired A Licensing Agreement And Began Developing Their Own Rotary Engines While many manufacturers ...

Compare that to modern piston cylinder engines, which have over 40 moving parts. Of course, in many iterations of the rotary engine, Mazda used two rotors rather than one, bringing the total ...

A rotary may come, but it might not be what you're hoping for. Mazda debuted its rotary engine 50 years ago in the Cosmo Sport in part as a way to stand out from its larger Japanese competitors.

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...

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 ...

Mazda has reached deep into its bag of tricks and announced that its celebrated rotary engine will be revived, but not in the form you might be expecting. It debuts in the new MX-30 e-SkyActiv R ...

The official line from Mazda is that the development of a hydrogen-powered rotary engine is ‘ongoing’ and in future, we could see a much more efficient alternative-fuel rotary engine.

Mazda first licensed the Wankel rotary engine technology in 1961. It began testing prototype units, and soon enough an engine had been developed. Unfortunately, Mazda says, within the first hour ...