The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but ...

Aftermarket performance parts like turbochargers will also negatively impact engine reliability. The Wankel rotary story isn’t completely bleak. There are some advantages to rotary engines.

Firstly, there are far fewer moving parts, with no camshafts and valves to worry about. Secondly, as the rotor and associated shafts are all working in the same circular motion, the rotary engine ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary ... few moving parts and offers very smooth power transfer and high power to weight ratio. The downside, though, is that the engine deliberately ...

Both 787Bs were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

As a result, they are considered more efficient by some metrics and require fewer moving parts to function. The first rotary engines were primarily used for aircraft during World War I ...

Mazda has worked to refine the Wankel rotary engine, and the powerplant benefits from fewer moving parts and much better balance than traditional combustion engines. The RX-8's perfect 50-50 weight ...

Our engraving represents a side elevation of a compact form of steam fire engine, manufactured by Silsby, Mynderse Co., which is a modification of theplai and arrangement of the parts of the one ...

There's a hybrid system borrowed from Toyota, plus a copycat "strong hybrid" setup to come from within Mazda eventually, maybe with rotary engine power. In the U.S. and Japan, where Mazda has ...

The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the Japanese ...

Mazda is once again manufacturing the rotary engine, but before you get too excited ... But the MX-30’s interesting parts lie under the bonnet, somewhere Mazda continues to pursue an eccentric ...