We look at why Mazda introduced the three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, and why it only ever saw service in the Cosmo coupe of the late 1980s.

Mazda's rotary engine may not have survived were it not for the actions of this rebellious group. This is how the Mazda RX-8 ...

View post: This 'Easy to Use' Tire Inflator That ‘Works Perfectly’ on All Sorts of Tires Is Now Only $15 Another day, another Mazda rotary engine story, except this time, it’s from the automaker ...

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 ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...

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 continues to hint strongly at a production version of the Iconic SP concept The Iconic SP debuted at the 2023 Tokyo auto show Power comes from electric drive system with rotary engine serving as ...

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 ...

After years of rumors and experimentation behind closed doors, the Mazda rotary engine is officially back. The Vision X-Coupe, a plug-in hybrid concept showcased at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, has ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

The gist is that, according to Mogo, the Iconic-SP concept was very well received. Count MotorTrend in that camp, as the sleek coupe concept and its cult-classic rotary engine (even relegated to range ...