Once left behind due to high fuel consumption and fragile reliability, the rotary engine, long championed by Mazda, is making ...

Ferrari is synonymous with speed and luxury, and the 812 Superfast is a shining example of that legacy. Its 6.5L naturally ...

Chinese firm Dongan Auto revives the Wankel engine, developing a lightweight prototype aimed at next-gen aerial mobility ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

It was an era when General Motors threw itself into bold experiments in design, technology, and engineering. The company knew it had to reinvent itself, but just did not know which way to go. So it ...

The Van Veen OCR1000 was a rotary-powered engineering flex and one of the rarest motorcycles ever made. And now, it can be ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor ...

For better or worse, Mazda and the rotary engine are connected like vintage champagne and Gouda cheese. The rotary has since made a comeback in the Euro-only Mazda MX-30 Skyactiv R-EV, but it has ...

Everything about this build is pure comedy, and you’ll soon see why. Things start funny, with the builder employing a three-door, second-generation Toyota RAV4 as its blank canvas. Not only does that ...