The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

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Not only was the Mazda Cosmo one of the first-ever production cars to feature a two-rotor Wankel engine, but it was also Mazda's first-ever sports car, spawning a lineage of some of the most ...

Mazda began 1920 as Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of corks. Toyo didn't make its first vehicle until 11 years later, a three-wheeled motorbike called the Mazda-go. Founder Jujiro Matsuda named ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 31, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - - Mazda Motor Corporation today announced that total production volume of rotary engine vehicles has surpassed two million units. The rotary engine is ...

Mazda is most noted for its rotary engine, developed by Felix Wankel in Germany before World War II. But of all its rotary-powered cars, one stands out.

The rotary is kind of like the Rudy (from the movie “Rudy”) of engines. It’s a little smaller than the others, and might not be quite as good, but you can’t help rooting for it. Mazda says that you ...

Designed and championed by self-taught engineer Felix Wankel, the rotary engine is now most closely associated with Japanese automaker Mazda. Many of the greatest Mazdas ever made, including the RX-7 ...

Kenichi Yamamoto, who led the engineering team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine at what is now known as Mazda Motor Co. and later became its president and chairman, died Dec. 20 in ...

Mazda’s revival of its iconic rotary engine as a battery-replenisher for a version of its electric car provides an alternative to pure EVs and plug-in hybrids but will eventually fall foul of an EU ...

The first-generation Cosmo was sold from 1967 to 1972, and only 1,176 were built in total, not including 83 prototypes. This Cosmo is one of the earlier Series I models, also known as the Cosmo 110S, ...