The Wankel, better known as the rotary engine, has always held a unique place in the world of performance cars. Compact, lightweight, and capable of high revs, a rotary offered an alternative to ...

In 1965, a company called the Curtiss-Wright Corporation bought a Ford Mustang and installed its own version of Felix Wankel's rotary engine under the hood. The aeronautical company was partly formed ...

The oft-rumored, long-awaited Mazda RX-7 sports car is now a reality. Since 1974, rumors have persisted that Toyo Kogyo was preparing a brand-new, rotary-powered, sports-type vehicle to compete ...

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

In the early '90s, Mazda's rotary-powered RX-7 was the quintessential Japanese two-seat sports car. But then the Miata ...

The Mazda RX-7 went through three generations as Mazda's premier performance sports car, consistently powered by Mazda's rotary engine. Debuting in 1978, it remained in the U.S. Mazda lineup through ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...