Here's Hundreds of Rotary Cars and Their Glorious Roar
The rotary engine, an engine whose mechanical novelty distracts from questions about its usefulness, revs extremely…
No Plans for a New Mazda RX Coupe or an Electric Sports Car
These days Mazda is equally known for what it will do as it is for what it won’t do. It will give us a gorgeous new 2019…
What's It's Like To Drive Mazda's Rotary Greatest Hits On California's Best Roads
For those of you grew up with Fast dreams and Furious visions filling your world of wheels, I’m about to describe a…
I Need A Car That Shoots Fire Again
Internet icon Hert ran one of the gnarliest turbo-LS swapped drift cars in the drifting world, and recently made the…
Triple Turbos Get This Triple Rotor Engine To 1,670 Horsepower
This is a Mazda RX-8 with a three-quarter drag chassis, and a three-rotor Wankel engine equipped with three…
Mazda Confirms Their Sports Car Concept Will Have A New Rotary Engine Called 'SkyActiv-R'
The Tokyo Motor Show kicks off this week and all eyes are on Mazda, anticipating the sports car concept they’ve been…
That Mysterious Mazda Sports Car Concept Might Just Have A Rotary Engine
Might. MIGHT. I’ve been burned before on this one, so I’m having a hard time believing it. But Australia’s Motoring,…
What It's Like To Drive Europe's Last Rotary Powered Car
West German NSU launched the Wankel rotary-engined Ro80 in 1967. Their revolutionary sedan won the European Car of…
Mazda Once Built A Rotary Miata Powered By Miraculous Science-Fuel
Imagine! A world in which you can own a small, cheap, rear-wheel drive sports car that burns not the finite processed…
What Car Sounds Least Like A Car?
This is a four-rotor Mazda 767B. It does not sound like a car. It sounds like if aliens were cutting Earth in half with…
Mazda's New CEO Has No Plans To Bring The Rotary Engine Back
Some sad news today for fans of sports cars powered by spinning triangles: Mazda's new CEO says it will come back when…
Let's Wish A Happy 50th Birthday To The Mazda Rotary Engine
The Tokyo Motor Show has always been a place full of zany surprises. But 50 years ago this week, the company that would…
Used Car Face Off: Joining The Mazda Rotary Club
Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would…
The Mazda Roadpacer Was A Big Holden With A Rotary Engine For Some Reason
Welcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to…
You Didn’t Know Bees Could Fly Backwards
This is New Zealand's Mad Mike Whiddett in his four-rotor RX-7 unlocking the Super Most Excellent Drifting…
For $4,500, Join The Rotary Club
Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda B2000 is described by its seller as a True Sleeper. That's because under its…
Vintage Mazda Commercial Is An Amusing Tale Of Love And Loss
Pickup trucks are usually the featured vehicles of hard luck tales put to music, but in this case of this vintage…
How the Toyota Camry is killing our dreams
We received some bad news this week. Mazda's rotary engine died again, while the Toyota Camry just keeps on living.…
The Forward Progression Of Rotary Engines
114 years ago last week, Stephen M. Balzer patented the first rotary-engine. Sometimes confused with the Wankel Rotary…
The Most Awesome Petrolhead Birthday Gift Ever
I’ve turned 30 today. My wife and her mother got me a set of bespoke cufflinks in the shape of Wankel engine rotors.…