For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...

It’s common in this line of work to stumble upon a story while researching for another story. Digging through archives and ...

Rotary engines have almost completely gone out of production, but they’re still beloved by enthusiasts. Eschewing pistons for a spinning three-sided rotor, they rev to the moon and sound great doing ...

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, ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

Mazda was not the first car manufacturer to put a rotary engine in their cars, but they are the ones that made them popular. Everyone knows about the Mazda’s obsession with rotary engines, they even ...