How the 13B-MSP Renesis evolved from earlier Mazda rotary designs, technical features explained, and common problems and maintenance issues discussed. The 13B-MSP Renesis rotary engine powered the ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

A look at Chevrolet’s 1970s rotary sports car experiment, its mid-engine layout, and why the bold concept never reached ...

The rotary engine has been a Mazda staple since 1967. It powered one of the most famous and eccentric Japanese sports car line-ups, the RX-series, until 2012 when Mazda discontinued pure ...

Cars using a Wankel rotary are certain to attract collectors' attention. These are 10 to take a look at.

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix Wankel ...

Rebuilding a race engine isn’t easy, but Mazda Motorsports has it even tougher with a rebuild of one of the most legendary race car engines ever made. The Mazda 787 was the first Japanese and ...