TOKYO — Mazda is going to extremes to keep two iconic products — its rotary engine and its MX-5 Miata sporty car tradition — alive in the age of electrification. The Hiroshima, Japan, automaker is ...

BRUSSELS — Mazda's famed rotary engine is getting primed for electrification. The MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV plug-in hybrid, which debuted at the Brussels Motor Show last week, features a gasoline rotary ...

Mazda has unveiled two concepts at the Tokyo motor show, including a four-door plug-in hybrid coupe with a rotary engine. In what appears to be close to production-ready guise, Mazda’s Vision X-Coupe ...

When people defend that internal combustion engines (ICEs) still have a role to play in personal transportation, they are correct. Having an electric motor driving the wheels does not necessarily ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lyon is based in Tokyo and writes about the car industry. At the Japan Mobility Show two years ago, Mazda unveiled a ...

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 continues to hint strongly at a production version of the Iconic SP concept The Iconic SP debuted at the 2023 Tokyo auto show Power comes from electric drive system with rotary engine serving as ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

The rotary engine is easily one of the most controversial powertrains in the world of cars, and it's known for the brap-brap sound. Why do they do that?

A Wankel engine is a type of rotary engine, but not all rotary engines are Wankel engines. Wrapping your mind around this idea will help you to better understand the similarities as well as the ...

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 ...