Just a few years after the Mazda RX-8 came out, car communities started talking about reliability problems with the engine. About six years after it went out of production, a used Wankel sports car is ...

Rotary-engine fans in North America are spinning with glee--at 9000 rpm. Why? Because not since the '95 model year, when the last twin-turbo 255-horsepower rotary-powered Mazda RX-7s were sold here, ...

The rotary engine is unique in its success and failure and its ability to make an impact with a completely different way of thinking. As it is, every production car for the last 130 years, aside from ...

It seems like we've been waiting forever for Mazda to come out with a new rotary engine. The last production car to use the unique powerplant was the RX-8, and that car was cancelled all the way back ...