The rotary engine was an unconventional design that delivered great power for its size. Here's what's good and bad about it.

Everyone remembers the RX-Vision and ill-fated Furai, but everyone forgets Mazda Taiki concept from the 2000s.

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, ...

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Many Mazda employees want a new rotary sports car, and this could be the “push” the company needs, but at what cost?

Launched in the late 1960s, the Ro 80 wasn't just the world's first mass-produced sedan with rotary power, but also one of the most innovative production vehicles of its era. Follow us: The rotary ...

The R130 was a very rare model, produced for only three years and with fewer than 1,000 units built. It was also notable as the only front-wheel-drive Mazda model powered by a rotary engine until the ...

When people defend that internal combustion engines (ICEs) still have a role to play in personal transportation, they are correct. Having an electric motor driving the wheels does not necessarily ...

Rotary might be a good name for this sort of engine, if the name wasn't already taken. Everything inside the crankcase rotates, but unlike a Wankel-style rotary engine, this design uses a piston with ...

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Tons of enthusiasm inside Mazda to productionize the Iconic SP, but making the numbers add up is tricky ...