The Wankel engine is the most famous rotary engine, but it isn't the only kind. While they aren't as common these days, they haven't fully gone away.

This star happens to be the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star, for it is the Wankel engine for their revolutionary C 111 gull-winged sports coupe which has attracted our interest.

Mazda stayed faithful to the rotary engine in the gas era, and some new innovations mean that the rotary will continue in the ...

Wankel Rotary GmbH was set up at Korb in 1993 as the legal successor to the firm founded by genial inventor Felix Wankel (1902- 1988), the man who came up with the rotary piston engine principle ...

Mazda's renowned rotary Wankel engine has been a staple in some of the carmaker’s sports cars for the last 44 years, with its first appearance in 1965 and its continuing application in the ...

The transverse, mid-engine, 180hp two-rotor Wankel engine was mated to a three-speed automatic. Engineers said that the engine could have been developed to 250 hp.