In a recent chat, Mazda insiders made it clear the idea of a rotary sports car is not locked in a dusty basement drawer and ...

GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt with practised precision.

Pop the hood on a classic Mazda RX-7 or RX-8 and the engine bay looks […] ...

Many Mazda employees want a new rotary sports car, and this could be the “push” the company needs, but at what cost?

The challenge isn’t building a fast rotary car. It’s building one that ordinary people can afford without sacrificing what ...

The 1970s strangled horsepower with emissions rules, fuel shocks, and insurance pressure—yet a handful of clever performance cars slipped through. Here are 11 machines once dismissed as weird or weak, ...

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 ...

The revival, however, isn’t coming from Japan’s automotive veteran alone. In a move few anticipated, China’s Changan Group has developed its own rotary engine, signaling a potential shift in how the ...

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. Follow us: The rotary ...

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 ...

The rotary engine has always been a fascinating piece of automotive engineering. Unlike traditional piston engines, the rotary engine operates with a triangular rotor that spins inside an oval chamber ...