Kennedy is not just another writer. Since the early 2000s, before televisions were a thing in every household, he enjoyed his dad's stories of the Safari Rally cars. He finally got a chance to attend ...

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012, the ...

The 1974 Mazda REPU was the world's only mass-produced rotary pickup truck, featuring a 1.3L Wankel engine with 110 hp and ...

His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...

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 ...

18 Oct 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo // Developing a new engine concept to make it more efficient than the current ones was a good call, but Mazda just did not deliver many advantages ...

After what feels like countless news stories anticipating its return, the rotary engine is officially back as a backup generator for the new Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV. Whereas the regular MX-30 is a ...

Typically, when we think of the Wankel rotary engine as a whole, we first think of Mazda. Back in the early 1960s, Mazda was keenly interested in developing the rotary engine, specifically the Wankel ...

The Mazda Iconic SP concept of the 2023 Japan Mobility Show was the sign of a new Mazda sports car that we’ve been awaiting for a decade—no, two. The Wankel rotary-powered, popup headlight-equipped ...

Performance brand Mazda wants to put its own unique stamp on the electric vehicle market. The zippy automaker introduced the 2022 MX-30 SUV Wednesday, its first battery-powered offering. Following ...

What is it about some concepts that just have you glued to the screen? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the body lines. Maybe the frame. The chassis? Or was it the engine? Whatever the reason, this idea ...

Coming after the news that they filed a trademark for an R logo similar to that of the Spirit R, Mazda has now done the same for another one of it’s icons: the rotary engine. The trademark filing ...