Mazda Motorsports has got a new video for rebuilding the 787B’s engine, and I refuse to think this is just about nostalgia.

In this video, we address several common questions regarding the rotary vane engine design: 00:00 How it's made 04:53 Q1: ...

See firsthand how Flis Performance tears apart a four-rotor racing engine to get it ready for the track again.

Race cars aren't often remembered unless they mean something special; usually, it's the team or the driver that holds the ...

The Peugeot prototype powered by a 3-rotor 20B engine delivers an extreme rotary engine note at 11,000 RPM. This video ...

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

The Mazda 787B carved its name into motorsport history in 1991 as the first Japanese car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. Even more legendary was its powertrain, a screaming 2.6-liter ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lyon is based in Tokyo and writes about the car industry. At the Japan Mobility Show two years ago, Mazda unveiled a ...

Almost every internal combustion vehicle on the planet today uses the classic piston engine. These run by converting heat energy into reciprocating motion, and then rotary motion that ultimately ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...