The rotary's reliability problem was mostly an owner problem. Here's the disciplined playbook that keeps FC 13Bs alive.

Mazda signed up as a licensee for Wankel’s rotary technology in 1961, and soon got to grips with the main problems (having ...

A mechanic's view of popular Japanese cars that come with design flaws, expensive repair histories or parts that are either ...

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

Mazda's 787B cemented its place in history by winning Le Mans in 1991, but it never competed at the highest level after that.

Does anyone else think the Mazda RX-8 used to be the coolest thing on the road. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t that fast. Nor that its rotary engine burns oil like Snoop burns “za,” and slurps gas ...

Developing a gasoline-powered rotary engine was a dream for Felix Wankel, and we mean that literally. Some steam engines worked on the same basic principle as far back as the 18th century, but the ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

If you’ve ever wondered what a single-rotor rotary engine sounds like, here’s one that makes 155 horsepower by Rob Dahm. Rob Dahm is one of those guys who make crazy builds. Just a while back, he ...

Kenichi Yamamoto, who led the engineering team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine at what is now known as Mazda Motor Co. and later became its president and chairman, died Dec. 20 in ...