Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

It's not a Wankel, but it is installed in a go-kart. LiquidPiston's X Mini engine gets a micro-scale workout in this video. isn't new, but it is endlessly fascinating. It's a rotary, but it doesn ...

The man just loves his rotary, to the point that he's built a 4-rotor Wankel engine before and shoehorned it into, well, you've guessed it, a Mazda RX-7. While the 4-rotor AWD, Jeep Grand Cherokee ...

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Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors acted as counterweights, the engine vibrated less than ...

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 ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised its sleek design and named the vehicle its Car of the Year. Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ...

Mazda had an interest in this unconventional engine design from the beginning, partnering with NSU which in turn made Felix Wankel’s dream of a rotary engine a reality. When NSU, which was owned ...