In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...
Chevrolet once came close to putting a rotary-powered Corvette on the road, a radical experiment that has largely slipped from the brand’s official memory. The secret Wankel program captured a moment ...
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 ...