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.

To know more about rotary motorcycles, we first have to get to know the rotary engine. Made by Dr. Felix Wankel in Germany in ...

Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

The engine itself features a novel design that's kind of like an inside-out Wankel rotary engine ... It's previously been tested in small planes and go-karts – but this will give the company ...

super-efficient engine that functions a lot like Wankel rotary units. Despite that, LiquidPiston says the unit can deliver 50 percent efficiency compared to a traditional gasoline engine which ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ... by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary ... a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp ...

2017 will mark fifty years since the first Mazda rotary production car, the beautiful Cosmo 110S. There’s sure to be renewed interest in the concept too, as rumours persist that the sleek RX ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Wankel Engines Market by Type ... in the manufacturing and development of rotary engines is expected to steadily increase Wankel engines ...