The rotary engine, a unique and unconventional design, has provided Mazda with remarkable advantages in the world of racing. Its lightweight, compact structure and distinctive power delivery have set ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...

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Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

When people think of Japan’s turbo era, the golden period of which occurred roughly from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, ...

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Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor ...