While most people might know rotary engines for their use in cars, a pair of companies made use of them in chainsaws — 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 ...

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a multi-faceted individual whose expertise spans the worlds of library and information science, environmental advocacy, and – perhaps surprisingly – the automotive ...

The rotary engine makes a comeback for cars and drones as gasoline gains popularity as a complement to electric motors.

Good news, everyone! Mazda is not only reassembling a dedicated team of engineers for rotary engine development, as we’ve reported earlier, but today it also announced its intention to expedite ...

Mazda 13B rotary engine in a white Mazda RX-7 engine bay. - TTTNIS/Wikimedia Commons When it comes to unconventional engine design, few exceed the Wankel rotary in terms of weirdness. Despite that, ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

View post: This 536-HP Hybrid V6 Is Lighter Than Any Other Engine Like It Another day, another Mazda rotary engine story, except this time, it’s from the automaker itself instead of a third-party ...

The 1972 Mazda RX-2 arrived as an unassuming compact sedan and coupe, yet its rotary engine delivered performance that ...

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 ...

A bold collaboration aimed to bring research to reality could rewrite the rulebook on sustainable energy. Advanced Innovative Engineering (AIE), the leader in high-performance rotary engines, is ...

Race cars aren't often remembered unless they mean something special; usually, it's the team or the driver that holds the ...