Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as ... into the more typical two-rotor design one might see in a Mazda RX-7, ...

There's a rumor that Mazda is bringing back the venerable rotary engine. Chances are, it won't be this rotary engine. Did you know that the FD RX-7, one of ... you'll have a 12-rotor Wankel ...

Garvin is an endurance powerboat racer who has twice set the record for the run from New York City to Bermuda, and he's built one of the craziest engines we've ever seen. It's a 12-rotor Wankel ...

As you may have heard, YouTuber Rob Dahm is building an outrageous third-generation (FD) Mazda RX-7 ... Wankel, and a 12-Cylinder Small Block New Spin: Mazda File Patent for New-Gen Rotary Engine ...

Yes, we know, the title above will see many Wankel enthusiasts ... generation) RX-7 most people think about when hearing the name of the Mazda sportscar. In the defense of the engine swap, the ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

I know the basics of the rotary engine ... RX-7 we have on the cover, I have decided to answer your letter in my column. Mazda's rotary engine design is sometimes called a Wankel after its ...

A Wankel engine ... its Wankel engine program. The 1970s saw Mazda bringing many affordable rotary vehicles to the U.S. These included the RX-2, RX-3, RX-4, and the much-loved RX-7 and RX-8 ...

known for building a 1,200 horsepower four-rotor all-wheel-drive FD RX-7, and he’s building the biggest rotary engine ever: a 12-rotor marine engine. For the uninitiated, Wankel engines are ...