Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...

Eighty-five years on from the night when Dr Felix Wankel allegedly dreamed of piloting his own car powered by an engine that was half turbine and half reciprocating, the rotary engine has ...

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Mazda has been the only carmaker to manufacture Felix Wankel’s rotary engine design in volume, and the design went out of production when the RX-8 left the market in 2012. The2022 Mazda MX-30 hybrid ...

A report from TopSpeed has us musing about the future of the motorcycle community when it comes to rotary-powered engines – or if there’s even a potential for a resurgence in the cards at all. There ...

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The Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S proved the twin-rotor engine could survive years before the RX-7 made rotary performance famous.

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...