Suzuki took a calculated risk in the ‘70s and played around with a Wankel rotary engine on a motorcycle resembling a café racer. The RE5 is a smooth ride (or so says Jay Leno) and boasts a sub ...

Ah, the Wankel. You magnificent ... The engine's sound is not what you would expect from a rotary, and if we're being honest we don't find it terribly pleasant to listen to, but it's still ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

var digg_url = 'https://digg.com/hardware/Delorean_with_a_300hp_3_rotor_Wankel_engine'; In the late sixties and early seventies, many car companies were enamored with ...

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 ...

1975 Suzuki RE5 in blue. Lovely example of the rare Wankel rotary powered Suzuki from the 70's. The RE5 was well ahead of its time both in engineering and style, the rotary engine in a bike is a ...

The only cars in recent times to utilise a Wankel rotary engine have been Mazdas – the RX-8 being the most recent. But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles ...