The rotary engine may have mostly been abandoned for the piston design found in most conventional car engines, but a couple ...

The Honda Chimney Engine represents a bold leap forward in engine technology, integrating a valve within the piston and ...

General Motors has long flirted with the idea of a mid-engined Corvette, and it finally rolled it out with the C8. But before ...

Automakers are in an era in which an engine can't change much from a generation to the next one - but this rotary motor beats ...

In 1954, Wankel finished designing a rotary piston engine for NSU known as the Drehkolbenmotor (or the DKM). This rotary-valve-controlled 250cc motorcycle engine was based on the company's Lux and ...

The rotary engine's inherently fewer moving parts reduced vibration and mechanical stress, which meant it could run reliably at extremely high RPMs for long periods -- perfect for a 24-hour sprint.

Felix Wankel’s rotary engine is an engineering marvel because of its simplicity. Rather than the conventional pistons, camshafts, valves, and lifters, his design has a roughly triangular-shaped ...

Every story dealing with a new rotary engine from Mazda lands in a different place on the matrix of possibilities between "Coming soon!" and "Never gonna happen!" In 2011 it was speculated that ...

Back in the 70s, GM was looking to take its much beloved Corvette to the next level. The General charged John DeLorean with investigating the possibility of putting a mid-engine rotary under hood ...

One of the rotary engine's biggest champions, AIE has been advancing rotary design since 2012. Its latest release shows that Wankel engines can be a perfect fit for compact, power-demanding ...

Mazda explicitly says that the rotary engine development group consists of 36 engineers who have previously worked on state-of-the-art powertrain systems.