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The rotary is pending resurrection, but in the meantime, swapping one of these old-fashioned cylinder powerplants in your ...
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The rotary engine may have mostly been abandoned for the piston design found in most conventional car engines, but a couple ...
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A new rotary engine for Mazda sports cars is entering development, and could bring all sorts of groundbreaking tech to the RX-7's successor.
Felix Wankel’s rotary engine is an engineering marvel because of its simplicity. Rather than the conventional pistons, camshafts, valves, and lifters, his design has a roughly triangular-shaped ...
One of the rotary engine's biggest champions, AIE has been advancing rotary design since 2012. Its latest release shows that Wankel engines can be a perfect fit for compact, power-demanding ...
Every story dealing with a new rotary engine from Mazda lands in a different place on the matrix of possibilities between "Coming soon!" and "Never gonna happen!" In 2011 it was speculated that ...
Japanese automaker Mazda discontinued its trademark pistonless rotary engine in 2012. That's also when the RX-8 quad coupe was canned with no successor in sight. Everyone and their dog hoped that ...
Another day, another Mazda rotary engine story, except this time, it’s from the automaker itself instead of a third-party speculator. Mazda announced a new ...
Mazda explicitly says that the rotary engine development group consists of 36 engineers who have previously worked on state-of-the-art powertrain systems.