The Wankel rotary engine was made popular by Mazda, who built rotary style engines from in production cars such as the RX-7, ...

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

The Four Rotor Corvette with a Wankel engine could have been Chevrolet’s first mid-engine version of the American sports car.

The Gnome engine, built by French brothers Laurent and Louis Seguin in 1908, is a rotary engine far different than the one perfected by Felix Wankel.

Gone is the 1.3-liter 13B-MSP Renesis rotary engine that came with this car; In its place is a 3.6-liter LFX V6, the same as you’d find in a numer of GM cars.

Technical manoeuvring to push regulatory boundaries for the slightest performance edge without actually breaking any rules is a familiar pattern in all forms of motorsport. Engineers treat the rule ...

Mazda took the racing world by surprise when it won the 1991 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The victory was significant for two reasons: It marked the first time a Japanese company took first ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

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 ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...