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 ...

Take the Wankel engine, or rotary engine, for example. Few automakers have ever created one, and Mazda was the only one to put it into mass production in models like the RX-7 and RX-8. It saw ...

IMSA Classic Saturday morning at the 63rd Rolex 24 At Daytona truly offered race fans and competitors alike a period-correct ...

Perhaps the most pivotal point in Mazda's rotary history came in 1963, when it launched the Rotary Engine ... of RX-7 to use rotary power. In fact, it was the final, but impressive performance ...

The street-legal model is inspired by the RX-Vision and Iconic SP concepts from Mazda. The modernized RX-7 is fitted with a three-rotor rotary engine that produces 350 hp. Mazda has officially ...

From the unmistakable shrill howl of the four-rotor 1991 Mazda RX-7-001 GTO to the thundering Chevrolet V-8 growl of a 1985 ...