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Mazda e-TPV Concept Showcased With 35.5-kWh Battery, Will Get Rotary Engine
Mazda e-TPV Concept Showcased With 35.5-kWh Battery, Will Get Rotary Engine

6 Sep 2019, 09:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Detailed as a BEV, the e-TPV concept will also spawn series hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and range-extended variants with a rotary engine on tap

 
2020 Toyota Supra Gets Rotary Engine, Looks Like a Drift Car
2020 Toyota Supra Gets Rotary Engine, Looks Like a Drift Car

3 Jul 2019, 07:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Now, before any purists starts ranting, I have to explain that we're looking at a rendering here. Then again, we might just see such a project coming to life

 
Mazda Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of The RX-7 Rotary-engined Sports Car
Mazda Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of The RX-7 Rotary-engined Sports Car

20 Jun 2018, 13:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though everyone is looking forward to the RX-9, the RX-7 remains the highlight of Mazda's involvement in rotary engine developement

 
Kenichi Yamamoto, Father Of The Mazda Rotary Engine, Passes Away At 95
Kenichi Yamamoto, Father Of The Mazda Rotary Engine, Passes Away At 95

27 Dec 2017, 20:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If it weren't for Kenichi Yamamoto, the Wankel engine design owned by NSU might have been scrapped as a failure of automotive engineering

 
Mazda SkyActiv-R Rotary Engine Confirmed, Coming In At Least Two Displacements
Mazda SkyActiv-R Rotary Engine Confirmed, Coming In At Least Two Displacements

16 Oct 2017, 17:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Mazda's newest rotary engine is coming along nicely, with the automaker's engineers all but confirming at least two versions of the SkyActiv-R

 
Rear Wing Patent Is A Sort Of Teaser For The 2020 Mazda RX-9
Rear Wing Patent Is A Sort Of Teaser For The 2020 Mazda RX-9

5 Oct 2017, 16:36 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The 2020 Mazda RX-9 is edging closer to reality, with the production-ready model expected to boast a deployable rear wing

 
New Mazda Rotary Sports Car Concept Coming To 2017 Tokyo Motor Show
New Mazda Rotary Sports Car Concept Coming To 2017 Tokyo Motor Show

18 Sep 2017, 11:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Two years since the RX-Vision Concept wowed everyone at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda prepares to show off Version 2.0 of the rotary sports car concept

 
Best Confirmation Yet: Mazda Rotary Engine Is Happening For RX-9 Sports Car
Best Confirmation Yet: Mazda Rotary Engine Is Happening For RX-9 Sports Car

4 Sep 2017, 16:08 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / At the Mazda Tech Forum in Frankfurt, a high-ranking Mazda official confirmed that development of the SkyActiv-R is in an advanced stage

 
Mazda Patents Doors That Pivot Upward, Drawings Reveal Sports Car Design
Mazda Patents Doors That Pivot Upward, Drawings Reveal Sports Car Design

29 Aug 2017, 18:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Aston Martin-like doors for the Mazda RX-9? That might actually happen, but only if the Japanese automaker can make the SkyActiv-R engine sufficiently efficient

 
This Group B-spec Mazda RX-7 Evo Works Never Saw Rallying Action
This Group B-spec Mazda RX-7 Evo Works Never Saw Rallying Action

12 Aug 2017, 05:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Back when Mazda was pushing rotary power onto the masses, the RX-7 spawned a Group B-spec rally car that arrived somewhat late to the party

 
Mazda RX-9 Rotary Sports Car Refuses To Be Killed Off By The Rumor Mill
Mazda RX-9 Rotary Sports Car Refuses To Be Killed Off By The Rumor Mill

17 Jul 2017, 20:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's hard to convince oneself not to believe the hype, but the Mazda RX-9 rotary sports car we're all expecting to happen isn't going to happen anytime soon

 
Mazda Recalls Over 100,000 Examples Of The RX-8 In The U.S.
Mazda Recalls Over 100,000 Examples Of The RX-8 In The U.S.

8 Jun 2017, 09:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although reliable by design, Mazda vehicles can go wrong sometimes. Even the RX-8 can, which has been recently recalled in two separate campaigns

 
Mazda's First Sports Car And World's First Twin-Rotor Engine Is 50 Years Old
Mazda's First Sports Car And World's First Twin-Rotor Engine Is 50 Years Old

30 May 2017, 08:22 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Mazda celebrates five decades since it launched its first sports car, the Cosmo Sport. It had the first twin-rotor production engine in the world

 
Mazda Patents a Rotary Engine To Use as Range Extender For a Hybrid
Mazda Patents a Rotary Engine To Use as Range Extender For a Hybrid

21 Mar 2017, 10:20 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A patent filed by Mazda has revealed that the brand is considering to use a rotary engine in a plug-in hybrid car. It would be a range extender unit

 
Mazda 767B Heading To Auction, Estimated To Fetch $2.4 Million
Mazda 767B Heading To Auction, Estimated To Fetch $2.4 Million

13 Feb 2017, 17:51 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While Mazda is working on the resurrection of the Wankel engine, Gooding & Company has a more immediate offer for well-heeled resurrection: a 787B racecar

 
Mazda RX-9 Will Go Hybrid, Sources Say
Mazda RX-9 Will Go Hybrid, Sources Say

20 Oct 2016, 13:42 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Mazda's RX-8 successor is expected and talked about for five years now. The project will keep its rotary heart, but sources say it will come as a hybrid

 
2020 Mazda RX-9 Allegedly Approved For Production, 400 PS Projected Output
2020 Mazda RX-9 Allegedly Approved For Production, 400 PS Projected Output

24 Aug 2016, 12:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Less than 1,300 kilograms, around 400 horsepower, rear-wheel-drive, rotary engine under a long hood. Ladies and gents, prepare for the Mazda RX-9

 
Mazda Confirms Rotary Engine Work, New Sportscar Should Arrive by 2018
Mazda Confirms Rotary Engine Work, New Sportscar Should Arrive by 2018

18 Sep 2015, 11:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mazda has used the Frankfurt Motor Show to confirm they still employ a team of dedicated Wankel specialists, but don't jump to conclusions just yet

 
Mazda RX-9 Rotary Coupe Rumored to Arrive in 2020
Mazda RX-9 Rotary Coupe Rumored to Arrive in 2020

3 Jul 2015, 08:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to a recent report coming from The Land Down Under, there's an all-new Mazda RX-9 rotary coupe coming in five years' time

 
Mazda RX-8 Successor Rumored Again. Will Have 300 HP Skyactiv Rotary Engine
Mazda RX-8 Successor Rumored Again. Will Have 300 HP Skyactiv Rotary Engine

16 Jun 2014, 08:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It seems that despite its many flaws, the rotary engined Mazda sportscar is so cool people will not let it die. A new report from a British magazine suggests once more that the RX-8 will have come b...