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 rotary ...

The Mazda 787B carved its name into motorsport history in 1991 as the first Japanese car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. Even more legendary was its powertrain, a screaming 2.6-liter ...

The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...