When I wrote about Mazda’s attempt to create the perfect range extender, I mentioned I wanted to examine the ideas that seem to be closer to that goal. Unfortunately, the Japanese company’s attempt ...

When it comes to unique engine designs, one of the most prolific is the trusty rotary configuration. Instead of featuring a number of spherical cylinders moving up and down like in most internal ...

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A Wankel RC2-60 Rotary Engine - Sanjay Acharya/Wikimedia Commons Ask most people what a rotary engine is, and they'll describe a Mazda RX-7 with a triangular rotor spinning inside a housing, ...

It is not unlikely that the company is facing issues developing a version of the rotary engine that will comply with emission rules. Instead of having an electric car with a range extender, Mazda ...

Internal combustion engines have still got a few punches left in them. Case in point: Kiwi drifter "Mad Mike" Whiddett has unveiled "the wildest drift car I could think of," built around the world's ...

Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, a German book salesman named Felix Wankel entertained a revolutionary, if not heretical notion: he fell to wondering if the standard gasoline engine, man’s commonest prime mover ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer who invented the rotary engine, is born on Aug. 13, 1902, in Lahr, Germany. Wankel became fascinated with internal combustion engines at an early age and began ...

What spins around comes around. Mazda has confirmed the return of the Wankel rotary engine in 2020, eight years after it put it on hiatus with the cancellation of the RX-8 sports car. But things are ...