Does anyone remember the “Put a bird on it” sketch from the comedy series Portlandia? Pretty basic premise really: a couple ...

Mazda is notorious for putting rotary engines under the hood of its cars, but here are six models from other manufacturers ...

Mazda isn't ready to give up on bringing ... This development group has the hard task of trying to make the rotary stack up to modern internal combustion engines in terms of emissions and fuel ...

At the end of 2011, the Mazda RX-8 rotary-powered sport coupe/sedan will cease to exist in new-car showrooms. With it, the mass-produced rotary engine will ... has tied up in the Wankel.

The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was the RX-8, discontinued in 2011. Mazda has not given up on the Wankel though, with ...

The later engine took power ... Keep the revs up. So I did – 2000rpm minimum even at a standstill, and frequently the far side of 5k. And Mazda’s best-known rotary sports car is great fun ...

The iconic rotary car engine ... within Mazda, engineers maintained a passion for reintroducing their brainchild at some point. The Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV can cover a distance of up to 107 ...

it also means that Mazda’s able to finely control the warm-up and running parameters, ensuring that the high fuel consumption and longevity issues that have long plagued rotary engines can be ...