The rotary engine may have mostly been abandoned for the piston design found in most conventional car engines, but a couple ...

The rotary engine is officially dead. For now. Bloomberg reports that Mazda built the last of its unique powerplants last Friday, ending a 45-year run. The automaker announced last year that it ...

Mazda’s efforts to revive the rotary engine have taken a twist. The automaker discontinued the use of rotaries in 2012, due largely to their relatively poor fuel economy and emissions, but a ...

Mazda The Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV will be coming to Europe, but U.S. availability is currently up in the air. For those unaware, the rotary is an engine that uses a very unique design.

Mazda stuck with the rotary engine design all the way until the last production run of the RX-8 in 2012, and ended up solving many of the design's biggest issues (via Mazda).

To reiterate: Mazda is putting together a team to develop an engine to power a new rotary sports car. That said, be ready for the potential offspring of this program to be a big departure from the ...

That said, Mazda is indeed bringing back the rotary engine, but not quite in the way you expected. In spring 2022, the Hiroshima-based carmaker will add a rotary-powered plug-in hybrid model to ...

The Mazda Cosmo Series I is the very first Mazda model to come with a rotary engine. The prototype was shown at the 1964 Tokyo Auto Show, and just 343 of these cars were built and sold in 1967 and ...

Martijn ten Brink, Mazda's VP of sales and customer service in Europe, confirmed to ZerAuto.nl that it will revive its rotary engine in 2019. It will be part of the automaker's first battery ...

As Popular Mechanics noted in our recent feature about the story and legacy of the Wankel rotary, the engine hasn't been featured in a car since the Mazda RX-8 was canceled in 2018.

It seems like we've been waiting forever for Mazda to come out with a new rotary engine. The last production car to use the unique powerplant was the RX-8, and that car was cancelled all the way ...

A top Mazda powertrain executive said today that the 1.6-liter rotary engine, called the 16X, is about 30 percent more fuel-efficient than the current rotary engine used in the RX-8 sporty car.