The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

In the wild and sometimes weird history of automobiles, few vehicles stand out quite like the Mazda Rotary Engine Pickup, or REPU. Produced for just four model years between 1974 and 1977, this ...

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, ...

"I really can't remember having any issues with this car." Yeah . . . when was the last time you heard someone with a Mazda RX-7 say that? Or better yet, someone with a rotary motor? It isn't any ...

So, Mazda struck up a partnership with Holden, and began dropping its 13B rotary engine into re-badged Holden Premiers. Putting a Mazda rotary engine into a badge-engineered Holden sedan seemed like a ...