To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine ... Should the rotors start to lose compression, the whole engine will need stripping down and rebuilding, which can cost ...

The Mazda RX-8 rotary engine produced 232 hp and the car could ... However, the department will start by focusing on other key areas first. Primarily, the department will be looking at how the ...

Mazda debuted its rotary engine 50 years ago in the Cosmo Sport ... two weaknesses that could be improved via a stop-start system Mazda has developed, based on a pair of U.S. patents.

And that, in turn, means that it is very difficult to turn a profit on vehicles with rotary engines, particularly for a small automaker like Mazda. There is a sliver of hope, though. "We are the ...

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 wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

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 ...

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s. The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper. However ...

Mazda is once again manufacturing the rotary engine, but before you get too excited thinking it’ll be found in a sporty Mazda RX-7 successor, best temper those expectations. That’s because the ...

This engine, dubbed the R20B, was a modified version of a previous Mazda rotary engine called the 20B, already used in the 757 Le Mans car. It was built with the help of Racing Beat, a tuning firm ...

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 ...

The first tech to be showcased was a rotary engine, as Mazda had released their first rotary-powered car just a couple of years prior. The Mercdes-Benz test mule in question was called the C 111 ...