Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

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To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... refined than a normal unit. The Mazda MX-5 is one of the most iconic sports cars ever made ...

Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors acted as counterweights, the engine vibrated less than ...

They are, after all, the only manufacturer currently building Wankel rotary engines. The nature of the rotary engine - where the intake and combustion chambers are separate - makes the design well ...

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Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

Available Models Tribute Hybrid, Tribute, RX-8, MX-5 Miata RF ... As the war came to a close, Wankel continued to work on his rotary engine. In 1951, he began working in collaboration with ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised its sleek design and named the vehicle its Car of the Year. Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ...

First introduced in 1969 Powered by a three-rotor Wankel rotary engine Featured a mid-engine layout In the late 1960s, Mercedes-Benz was hard at work trying to implement then-radical new ideas ...