In June 2023, the company resumed mass production of vehicles with rotary engines for the first time in approximately 11 years since the end of production of the Mazda RX-8 in 2012.

Davis started his career in Waukegan a few years after the RC engine debuted. In 1972 OMC also introduced an air-cooled 35-hp 528cc rotary engine for its Evinrude and Johnson snowmobiles, and that ...

The Wankel rotary engine offers one of the most unique sounds of any ICE. Most famously used in various legendary Mazdas like the RX-7 and the supposedly banned Le Mans-winning 787B race car, the ...

The engine itself has been tuned at Juny Performance, who are renowned for their RX-3 and RX-7 mods. With less than a day to bid, the amazing Toyo-Mazda is sitting at $10,100 after 32 bids.

An R&D engineer at Norton for many years, Crighton still dreams about a new generation of rotary engines. Only this time it's not a racing-oriented endeavor, but a stride for casual road bikes.

T he Wankel rotary engine offers one of the most unique sounds of any ICE. Most famously used in various legendary Mazdas like the RX-7 and the supposedly banned Le Mans-winning 787B race car, the ...

Editor, Evan Griffey, explains why the Rotary Engine, such as in the 1970 Mazda R-100, is also referred to as a "Wankel". Get the details here in this month's issue of Turbo & High-Tech Performance.

Mazda's 787B cemented its place in history by winning Le Mans in 1991, but it never competed at the highest level after that. Here's what happened to it.

Highly-tuned rotary engines attack your senses in ways other blocks just can’t. ... but they span 20 years of rotary racing, from 1973 to 1992, spanning 198bhp to 725bhp.

In 1991, a rotary-powered Mazda won the 24 Hours or Le Mans. By 1992, rotary engines were no longer allowed to race there. But for the 2021 season, 30 years after the fact, the organizers behind ...