While most of the industry is embracing electrification, the rotary engine fan base is still going strong, with plenty of aficionados hoping for the Wankel motor to return, obviously with the help of ...

Ever since the demise of the RX-8 almost 10 years ago, Mazda has been rumored to launch a worthy successor to its rotary-powered sports car. They even went as far as previewing how such a model could ...

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Mazda’s iconic Wankel rotary engines may be neat pieces of engineering, but they have ill reputes that aren’t entirely undeserved. They lack torque, chug gas and oil alike, and are so sensitive to ...

Classic Datsun and Mazda RX-8 meet on The Strip in a head-to-head style automotive comparison that highlights two very ...

TOKYO -- Mazda Motor Corp. may have retired the RX-8 sports car in the United States, but the Japanese carmaker is sending off the rotary engine car with a special edition model to mark the last 1,000 ...

Reports of a possible return of the rotary engine have been going back and forth ever since Mazda discontinued the RX-8 seven years ago. The latest thing that fueled the rumors once again is a mule ...

As much as we’d love to see Mazda build a new rotary sports car, it’s very unlikely that such a car will come to fruition anytime soon. Nonetheless, the automaker was recently spotted testing a pair ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 22, 2011 Comment Now! Mazda has reportedly ceased production of its RX-8 sports car, the only rotary-powered vehicle currently on the market, and possibly the last. The ...

While a Mazda RX-7 remains for now a pipe dream for driving enthusiasts as well as the car maker itself, the smokin’ RX-8 continues as the Japanese brand’s halo model. Five years after the RX-8 ...

With the midengine Corvette now a reality, we are finally free to focus our speculative energies on that other long-rumored sports car: the revived, rotary engine-equipped Mazda RX-9 (or whatever this ...