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.

Rotary engines have plenty of quirks, but they can still put up some impressive power figures. Here are some of the most ...

The whirring noise penetrates the cramped cabin bright and loud. The speedometer shows just 3500 rpm, but it sounds more like ...

Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

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 engine itself features a novel design that's kind of like an inside-out Wankel rotary engine, and delivers a jaw-dropping power density of up to 1.5 horsepower per pound. At 210 lb ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lexus had the LS, but what Mazda nearly had could've been so much greater. But the odds were always stacked against the ...

Additionally, the merits of Wankel engines over other conventional ... technologies in the manufacturing and development of rotary engines is expected to steadily increase Wankel engines market ...

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 ...