The 2004 Mazda RX-8 arrived as a high-stakes bet that sports car buyers would still embrace a rotary engine in an era ...

In the late Eighties, a young racing driver from South Africa got his first taste of rotary action when he campaigned a Mazda RX-2 in the national racing series. Taken with the allure of the rotary ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

Mazda used the name RX-3 to indicate the third rotary experiment for themselves. And just like Mazda, this was, in a couple ways, Arnel's third rotary experiment. Along with a few other old school ...

It’s been a long time since Mazda felt like it cared about building something fun other than the MX-5. For a brand that once gave us the RX-7 and the original Miata, the last couple of decades have ...

Two decades into the new millennium and classic rotary-powered cars from the ’70s are thin on the ground. While you'll have little trouble finding an affordable FD Mazda RX-7 on Craigslist and the ...

Rotary-powered cars are a delicate topic at Mazda, and while we keep hearing rumors of a possible revival of the RX series, they do not seem to materialize. Sure, some might argue that the MX-30 ...