Mazda isn't ready to give up on bringing ... 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 fuel ...

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 ...

However, a humble little SUV has re-introduced such tech into the modern automotive landscape, and that got us thinking, what does the future hold for the Mazda rotary engine? Mazda is a Japanese ...

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 number of moving parts to three. You get at least ...

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.

Mazda engines include an injector pump which ... blowing holes into engine blocks, spraying oil and parts all over the place. Rotary engines do well on the racetrack, that is, when they are ...

One thing Mazda never managed to solve however, was the problem with fuel consumption, and although the latest generation of Renesis rotary engines were far more efficient than its predecessors ...

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 ...

That’s because the new rotary engine is being used in the ... But the MX-30’s interesting parts lie under the bonnet, somewhere Mazda continues to pursue an eccentric development path.

Mazda has worked to refine the Wankel rotary engine, and the powerplant benefits from fewer moving parts and much better balance than traditional combustion engines. The RX-8's perfect 50-50 weight ...