Chinese firm Dongan Auto revives the Wankel engine, developing a lightweight prototype aimed at next-gen aerial mobility ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure ...

The 1970s were full of strange automotive experiments, but few were as unlikely as a compact Japanese pickup powered by a ...

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, ...

The new Vision X-Coupe Concept features a new range-extended Wankel rotary-powered drivetrain capable of capturing CO2 so that it can leave the air cleaner, “the more you drive.” Mazda revealed the ...

Many mainstream automakers are moving away from sports cars. But not Mazda, which seems set to offer two different models. We’ve already reported on the company’s planning for what will become the ...

It's difficult to imagine that a company that started out as a cork manufacturer in 1920, would today be a successful automaker on a global level. According to Statista, Mazda sold around 407,000 ...

Mazda is using the 2025 Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo to show its sustainable and empathetic side—and another tease of a forthcoming plug-in hybrid with a rotary engine—with the global unveil of two ...

Hybrids got a whole lot more interesting this week when Toyota, Subaru and Mazda announced they were working together to keep the combustion flame alive, but make it burn more cleanly. Ordinarily, ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...