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This abandoned engine idea nearly changed the auto industry forever

At one point in automotive history, engineers believed they had found a completely new path for internal combustion. The ...
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The Mazda Rotary Pickup showed Mazda was willing to take risks

The 1971 Mazda Rotary Pickup, often referred to as the “Repu,” marked a bold move by Mazda into the realm of unconventional ...
Autoblog

The Engine That Almost Killed Mazda — and Why It’s Still Alive Today

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 ...
Hackaday

Autopsy Of A First-Generation RX7 Mazda Rotary Car Engine

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...
Autoblog

Inside the 13B-MSP Renesis, Predecessor of the Latest New Mazda Rotary Engine

How the 13B-MSP Renesis evolved from earlier Mazda rotary designs, technical features explained, and common problems and maintenance issues discussed. The 13B-MSP Renesis rotary engine powered the ...
WRAL

Kenichi Yamamoto, Father of Mazda’s Rotary Engine, Is Dead at 95

Kenichi Yamamoto, who led the engineering team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine at what is now known as Mazda Motor Co. and later became its president and chairman, died Dec. 20 in ...