The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...

Find out how emissions regulations killed Mazda's three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, just as it was getting started in the ...

It’s common in this line of work to stumble upon a story while researching for another story. Digging through archives and ...

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 tiny Mazda Autozam AZ-1 has long been a cult favorite for its dramatic gullwing doors and modest kei car performance, a ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Goda Bankin AZ-1 uses the venerable 13B rotary engine, which is famous for powering many Mazda RX-7s across several ...

Mazda was not the first car manufacturer to put a rotary engine in their cars, but they are the ones that made them popular. Everyone knows about the Mazda’s obsession with rotary engines, they even ...

The electric motor might carry the hype banner at the moment, but some minds remain convinced that there's plenty of innovation left to be extracted from internal combustion. AIE is one of the rotary ...

What's the first thought that comes to your mind when someone says Corvette? For some, it's a white Corvette C4 driven by Burt Reynolds as he drives off into the sunset in a glorious V8 symphony.