In the late Eighties, a young racing driver from South Africa got his first taste of rotary action when he campaigned a Mazda RX-2 in the national racing series. Taken with the allure of the ...

From the RX-7 street racing hero to the surprisingly practical RX-8 four-seater, which were both powered by the brand's Wankel rotary engine, Mazda built cars that stood out from the rest.

The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and ... Unless, apparently, you're rotary wizard Rob Dahm: then you can slap a turbocharged single-rotor Wankel in there, and add power while actually ...

Mazda’s ever-after association with the rotary engine began in the ’60s ... the company committed to racing at Le Mans long-term, learning lessons from each foray. From 1981, the works ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda ... four-rotor in the 787B Le Mans race car, one of the greatest rotary engines ever fitted to ...

It also has a big involvement in motorsport, and in 1991, it even won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a rotary-powered Mazda 787B prototype race car. However, in order to survive the jungle of the ...

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...