The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

Mazda spent decades turning the rotary engine from a quirky engineering idea into a cultural touchstone, from early RX coupes ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

Mazda was not the first car manufacturer to put a rotary engine in their cars, but they are the ones that made them popular. Everyone knows about the Mazda’s obsession with rotary engines, they even ...

The Mazda MX-30 is still soldiering on like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Japanese domestic market. There, Mazda fitted the MX-30 with a combustion engine. Japanese buyers ...

Find out how emissions regulations killed Mazda's three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, just as it was getting started in the ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...