The Wankel rotary engine offers one of the most unique sounds of any ICE. Most famously used in various legendary Mazdas like the RX-7 and the supposedly banned Le ...

YouTuber AngeTheGreat has made some impressive engine simulators in the past. Everything from rotary engines to inline-sevens can be tested digitally, but they’ve always been in two dimensions. This ...

"I really can't remember having any issues with this car." Yeah . . . when was the last time you heard someone with a Mazda RX-7 say that? Or better yet, someone with a rotary motor? It isn't any ...

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 ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...