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 1974 Mazda REPU was the world's only mass-produced rotary pickup truck, featuring a 1.3L Wankel engine with 110 hp and ...
John is a Michigan-based nerd who is a sucker for the Lions and, appropriately, the Pistons. His previous day job was producing local TV news. He fell in love with cars thanks to a 1967 Ford Mustang ...
It's been nearly a decade since a production car was powered by a rotary engine, but Mazda has revealed it still makes the engine. In a story posted to the Classic Mazda section of its Japanese ...
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 ...
On this episode of Engineering Explained, Jason Fenske explains how the wankel rotary engine works. Using a 3D-printed 1/3 scale model of a 13B-REW engine from an FD Mazda RX-7, we get a closer look ...
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 ...