Mazda has historically insisted on building its own engines in-house, starting at its Hiroshima plants in Japan and later expanding production to regional facilities in China, Mexico, and Thailand to ...

4 Reasons Why The Rotary Engine Is Dead. The Wankel engine was last seen in a production car in the Mazda RX-8, and currently ...

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, ...

Mazda’s SKYACTIV-Z tech could change the way automakers and drivers look at gas-powered engines amid today’s significant EV investment push. Expert engineer Masahisa Yamakawa at Mazda said that heat ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Top-down view of the front of a gray Mazda Miata RF, showing Mazda logo - JoshBryan/Shutterstock Mazda is known for many things, not least for championing the iconic rotary engine in cars like the ...

James Kelly didn't grow up knowing he wanted to be a writer, but once he fell into the whacky world of automotive journalism, he hasn't wanted to leave. In college, he found ways to make every paper ...

Mazda is known for many things, not least for championing the iconic rotary engine in cars like the RX-7 and RX-8. The Japanese automaker has a good track record with more conventional piston engines ...