In '67, Mazda launched the first ever two-rotor engine, the 10A ... produced 232 hp and the car could go from 0-62 mph in just 6.3 seconds. This unique sports car also featured rear-hinged ...

In the Eighties a Mazda 323, fitted with a 10,000 r/min three-rotor Wankel engine, took the fight to Audi's Quattro. It was ...

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two ...

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 ...

The car’s 2.6-litre four-rotor unit produced 697bhp at 9000rpm and 448lb ft of torque at 6500rpm in race trim (Mazda claims 845bhp could be produced in qualifying spec), ensuring the engine’s ...