Most car enthusiasts associate the term “rotary engine” with Felix Wankel’s invention, developed in the 1950s and most commonly associated with Mazda. However, more than half a century before the ...

View post: This 'Easy to Use' Tire Inflator That ‘Works Perfectly’ on All Sorts of Tires Is Now Only $15 Another day, another Mazda rotary engine story, except this time, it’s from the automaker ...

You hear endless myths about the Mazda RX-7, from breathless praise of its “magic” to horror stories about blown apex seals.

Many Mazda employees want a new rotary sports car, and this could be the “push” the company needs, but at what cost?

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

The R130 was a very rare model, produced for only three years and with fewer than 1,000 units built. It was also notable as the only front-wheel-drive Mazda model powered by a rotary engine until the ...

Good news, everyone! Mazda is not only reassembling a dedicated team of engineers for rotary engine development, as we’ve reported earlier, but today it also announced its intention to expedite ...

Mazda hasn’t had a pure sports car outside of the MX-5 Miata in ages; the RX-8 feels like an ancient relic at this point. So it was a big deal when the company showed off its gorgeous Iconic SP ...

Developing a gasoline-powered rotary engine was a dream for Felix Wankel, and we mean that literally. Some steam engines worked on the same basic principle as far back as the 18th century, but the ...

Tons of enthusiasm inside Mazda to productionize the Iconic SP, but making the numbers add up is tricky ...

Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

Mazda's famous rotary engine finally made its big return last year, but it wasn't under the hood of a replacement for the RX-8. In fact, it wasn't even in a performance car at all. Instead, it served ...