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Mazda built a rotary truck and it was exactly as insane as it sounds

The 1974 Mazda REPU was the world's only mass-produced rotary pickup truck, featuring a 1.3L Wankel engine with 110 hp and ...

Weight Is The Enemy In Rob Dahm's Single-Rotor Turbocharged Miata

Can a single rotor Miata exist without shaking itself apart? Can a single rotor Miata be even more fun to drive than its ...
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Mazda Is Bringing Back The Rotary RX-7 And Building A New Miata

Mazda is developing two sports cars, including an RX-7 successor and next-gen MX-5. The rotary-powered model may debut next year with a range-extender hybrid powertrain. The upcoming MX-5 is still ...
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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, ...
Hackaday

The Birotary Engine Explained

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into a single ...
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The Engine That Almost Killed Mazda — and Why It’s Still Alive Today

View post: I Drove the 2026 BMW 750e from LA to Yosemite, Here’s My Honest Review of BMW’s Flagship Luxury Cruiser Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 Cosmo Sport. Rotary ...
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Six Non-Mazda Cars Fitted With Rotary Engines

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012, the ...