Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to categorize the Wankel.

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor ...

Unveiled in 1973, the OCR 1000 was the world's first production motorcycle to feature an automotive-derived, twin-rotor engine, and its creators dubbed it the finest, most technologically advanced ...