There are many different forms of internal combustion engines, but most use the same basic principle. Explosions in the combustion chamber move pistons up and down to spin a crankshaft. That ...

The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix Wankel ...

Not long ago we turned your attention to a unique and slightly comedic build that well-known automotive YouTuber Rob Dahm was working on. Dahm, who is a vocal proponent of the Wankel rotary engine, ...

Discover the Achilles' heels of some of the most iconic and powerful car engines, from Audi's 4.2 V8 FSI to Toyota's 2JZ-GTE.

The first-generation Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S/Toyota 86 was one of the most beloved sport coupes in recent history. It was cheap, good-looking, and most importantly offered a stick-shift and ...

We’ve seen plenty of Mazda RX-7 sports coupes with pushrod LS V8s under the hood in place of their factory rotary engines, but we’ve never heard of someone swapping out a V8 for a rotary. That is, ...

Few attributes will catapult a sports car from mediocre to memorable faster than a great engine. Taking that knowledge to heart, Mazda created its RX-7 around a very different engine–a rotary–and won ...

No other auto manufacturer has spent as much time and resources into developing the rotary engine as Mazda. Its first rotary-powered vehicle was the Cosmo Sport, a rear-wheel-drive sports car that ...

With the RX-8 sports car expected to be discontinued after the current model year, Mazda, the last bastion of the Wankel rotary engine, will be without a car in its lineup featuring the free-spinning ...