Most engines are predictable… rotary engines are not. Building a Mazda rotary requires patience, confidence, and trust in the ...

A new kind of car has joined the five-second quarter-mile club. It’s a Mazda 13B-powered racer nicknamed the “Grey Bullet.” ...

The 1970s strangled horsepower with emissions rules, fuel shocks, and insurance pressure—yet a handful of clever performance cars slipped through. Here are 11 machines once dismissed as weird or weak, ...

From spinning rotary engines and their brutal side effects to the massive multi-row radials that powered bombers and fighters, this episode traces how engineers chased power through clever compromises ...

The revival, however, isn’t coming from Japan’s automotive veteran alone. In a move few anticipated, China’s Changan Group has developed its own rotary engine, signaling a potential shift in how the ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

For better or worse, Mazda and the rotary engine are connected like vintage champagne and Gouda cheese. The rotary has since made a comeback in the Euro-only Mazda MX-30 Skyactiv R-EV, but it has ...

WWI rotary engines, though quickly superseded, were revolutionary for their time, offering superior power-to-weight ratios with unique features like the entire engine spinning around the crankshaft ...

DECATUR, Ala. — The Rotary Club of Decatur Daybreak, in partnership with The Decatur Daily, is putting the pedal to the metal this fall with the Driven to Give Auto & Bike Show. On Saturday, September ...