LiquidPiston’s flagship innovation, the X-Engine, builds on the principles of rotary engines but with a transformative twist.

Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

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 ...

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder, has firmly jumped into the deep end of the pool with his latest project: The ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors ...

The mere fact that this engine starts and runs is a testament to the mechanical know-how of these guys. For comparison's sake, Mazda's own Le Mans-winning 787 prototype utilized a four-rotor Wankel.

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Amidst the Space Race of the 1960s, this Mazda aimed for the stars - paving the way for other rotaries in the Mazda orbit.