Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

We'll be the first to admit that AMC Pacers don't send tingles of excitement down our backs when we see them. Truly an innovative car for its time that fell a bit short on delivery, the Pacer ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

What most people may not realize is that a German originally created the rotary engine that powered those Japanese Mazda ...

super-efficient engine that functions a lot like Wankel rotary units. Despite that, LiquidPiston says the unit can deliver 50 percent efficiency compared to a traditional gasoline engine which ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary ... a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp ...

The only cars in recent times to utilise a Wankel rotary engine have been Mazdas – the RX-8 being the most recent. But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles ...

Like the Chevrolet Vega on our list, AMC's Pacer was supposed to be fitted with a rotary engine--but both rotaries had technical problems late in their development (read: after incurring heavy ...

The AMC AMX, built from 1968 through 1970, was one of the only two-seat sports cars made in the U.S. when introduced.

The rotary engine offers vibration-free operation, compact size, and high power output compared to traditional engines. Mazda did not invent the rotary engine but were instrumental in furthering ...