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My 1991 RX-7 Found a New Home 40 Miles From Sports Car Heaven
My 1991 RX-7 Found a New Home 40 Miles From Sports Car Heaven

10 Mar 2024, 19:25 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / Moving to the countryside was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It's bliss for my RX-7 and me as we'll take some of the greatest driving roads.

 
Driven: 2024 Mazda MX-30 R-EV Was Better Than I Expected
Driven: 2024 Mazda MX-30 R-EV Was Better Than I Expected

24 Feb 2024, 17:35 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / I had the keys to the new MX-30 R-EV for almost four days. And I can't understand why so many people disprove of Mazda's plans for the future.

 
Mazda RE Development Group Tasked With Developing New Rotary Engines
Mazda RE Development Group Tasked With Developing New Rotary Engines

1 Feb 2024, 17:29 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Instead of prioritizing full-electric vehicles, Mazda decided to revive the RE Development Group for the sole purpose of developing new rotary engines

 
Van Veen OCR 1000: Remembering the Dutch Rotary-Powered Superbike
Van Veen OCR 1000: Remembering the Dutch Rotary-Powered Superbike

15 Dec 2023, 16:49 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Powered by what was essentially a car engine, the OCR 1000 was the world's first production motorcycle with a two-rotor Wankel

 
ICE for REx: Mazda Missed Chance to Establish Rotary Engines as Range Extender Standard
ICE for REx: Mazda Missed Chance to Establish Rotary Engines as Range Extender Standard

18 Oct 2023, 09:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Developing a new engine concept to make it more efficient than the current ones was a good call, but Mazda just did not deliver many advantages with it.

 
Eunos Cosmo: A Look Back at the Forgotten, Three-Rotor JDM Legend
Eunos Cosmo: A Look Back at the Forgotten, Three-Rotor JDM Legend

10 Oct 2023, 12:12 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / With a three-rotor, a touchscreen infotainment system with built-in GPS and a Rolls-Royce-level interior, the 1990s Eunos Cosmo is still mind-blowing today

 
USAF Spends $35 Million on Same Rotary Engine That Got the Army All Worked Up
USAF Spends $35 Million on Same Rotary Engine That Got the Army All Worked Up

9 Oct 2023, 08:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The USAF announced an extra $20 million contract for a company called LiquidPiston to advance a revolutionary rotary engine

 
A Brief History of Hot Wheels: Mazda's MX-5s and More Rotaries
A Brief History of Hot Wheels: Mazda's MX-5s and More Rotaries

23 Jul 2023, 20:17 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / We did the math, and by the end of this story, you will find out how many Mazda vehicles Hot Wheels has ever made. It will cost over $1,000 to buy them all.

 
Maker of Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Tapped by USAF for Future Powerplants
Maker of Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Tapped by USAF for Future Powerplants

26 Jun 2023, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American engine maker LiquidPiston got a Strategic Funding Increase for the development of a new class of hybrid power solution and engine

 
Insane Father and Son Rotary Fleet Stashed in Hanger Is What Dreams Look Like in Real Life
Insane Father and Son Rotary Fleet Stashed in Hanger Is What Dreams Look Like in Real Life

15 Jun 2023, 13:38 UTC · By: Humphrey Bwayo / Ben and his dad have the craziest rotary collection stashed in a secret hanger. At one point, they had 25 Rotaries in their fleet

 
Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Has the U.S. Army All Worked Up, We Should Be Too
Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Has the U.S. Army All Worked Up, We Should Be Too

6 Apr 2023, 11:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The LiquidPiston XTS-210 rotary engine is the size of a basketball and can be used for anything from power generation to powering VTOLs

 
Could This Be the Best Production Engine Ever Made?
Could This Be the Best Production Engine Ever Made?

3 Mar 2023, 14:28 UTC · By: Călin Iosif / As petrolheads, we all love a good engine, and there are a lot of divine petrol-burning creations out there, but what is the best one?

 
Mazda Has a Rotary-Powered Sports Car Dream, Does That Mean the RX Is Making a Comeback?
Mazda Has a Rotary-Powered Sports Car Dream, Does That Mean the RX Is Making a Comeback?

17 Jan 2023, 11:21 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / In case you forgot, Mazda does have a rotary-powered model, the new MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV plug-in hybrid crossover, and it's anything but exciting

 
Mazda Just Lost an Amazing Opportunity With the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV
Mazda Just Lost an Amazing Opportunity With the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV

14 Jan 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Instead of keeping the already small battery pack the electric version of the MX-30 had, the company just decided to cut it in half.

 
2023 Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV Revealed as PHEV With Rotary Engine Generator
2023 Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV Revealed as PHEV With Rotary Engine Generator

13 Jan 2023, 10:40 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Joining the EV variant, the new rotary-powered Mazda MX-30 is a plug-in hybrid model, with a 53-mile electric driving range

 
RX-What? Mazda Confirms Rotary Engine for the MX-30 - Will Be a Plug-In Hybrid
RX-What? Mazda Confirms Rotary Engine for the MX-30 - Will Be a Plug-In Hybrid

9 Jan 2023, 10:26 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Mazda says the MX-30 with plug-in hybrid rotary engine will debut this week at the Brussels Motor Show, in Belgium, and that it will launch this spring

 
Barn Find Gold: Mazda RX-7 With 8K Miles Gets First Wash in 23 Years
Barn Find Gold: Mazda RX-7 With 8K Miles Gets First Wash in 23 Years

20 Nov 2022, 19:14 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Not surprising for a vehicle that was parked for more than 20 years, the RX-7 emerged with a thick layer of dust covering its body.

 
Mazda's Famous Rotary Engine Is Finally Making a Comeback, EVs Take the Back Burner
Mazda's Famous Rotary Engine Is Finally Making a Comeback, EVs Take the Back Burner

1 Nov 2022, 09:51 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Mazda will announce a new corporate strategy soon, and the key takeaways are the delay of the EV revolution and the arrival of the long-awaited rotary engine

 
Turbo Rotary VW Golf Mk1 Has a Voyage of Slammed Widebody CGI Discovery
Turbo Rotary VW Golf Mk1 Has a Voyage of Slammed Widebody CGI Discovery

2 Sep 2022, 10:18 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Andreas Richter, a virtual artist formerly known as “ar.visual_” (now "richter.cgi") on social media, has decided it was about time he blew our road trip minds

 
2006 Corvette C6 Gets Mazda RX7 Three-Rotor Turbo Engine, Plenty Attitude Too
2006 Corvette C6 Gets Mazda RX7 Three-Rotor Turbo Engine, Plenty Attitude Too

13 Jul 2022, 20:33 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / All it took for this Corvette to start behaving like your classic Japanese drifting machine was to receive a pretty special turbocharged rotary engine