We first heard about this thing almost two years ago now: a new rotary engine from Mazda. But not apparently for the RX-9
Longtime friend of Jalopnik and myself, Tom Jennings, is a huge Rambler fan and walking, moist column of…
In 1991, a rotary-powered Mazda won the 24 Hours or Le Mans. By 1992, rotary engines were no longer allowed to race…
I have sat in the new Mazda MX-30, the company’s first full production EV, and I still couldn’t tell you how large…
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It’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more…
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The rotary engine, an engine whose mechanical novelty distracts from questions about its usefulness, revs extremely…
Near the top of any car enthusiast’s list of most lustworthy engine types sits the Wankel rotary. So when I had a…
See? And you thought all that praying to Ahura Mazda was for nothing, right? Well it worked: Mazda’s legendary…
Currently, nobody on the market sells cars that run with the magical triangles of a rotary engine—the kind of engine…
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The final FD generation Mazda RX-7 was an ambitious car for its day, with high tech like sequential turbos on its…
Every now and then there’ll be a weekend where the whole world gets together and dials its car culture all the way…
Crammed into a red Porsche 911 Turbo S Porsche convertible, we slotted into the traffic rolling towards Times Square…
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Opening up a rotary engine is fun, letting you see how those magic triangles make power. And it’s absolutely…
Underneath a quiet office building in even-quieter Irvine, California, there rests some of the loudest, strangest,…
In 1991, little Mazda stood at the top of the world. It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B…
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With rotary engines long out of production, the job of building and maintaining them has fallen to individual…
Rotary engines, also known as Wankel engines, have some of the most rabid and loyal followings of lovabale nutjobs…
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YouTuber Warped Perception built a transparent Wankel rotary engine in his shop, and the resulting footage of the…
At this point in the game, it seems highly unlikely that the famed Mazda rotary will return as a standalone engine.…