Race cars aren't often remembered unless they mean something special; usually, it's the team or the driver that holds the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lyon is based in Tokyo and writes about the car industry. At the Japan Mobility Show two years ago, Mazda unveiled a ...
The 1972 Mazda RX-2 arrived as an unassuming compact sedan and coupe, yet its rotary engine delivered performance that ...
Mazda spent decades turning the rotary engine from a quirky engineering idea into a cultural touchstone, from early RX coupes to the RX-7 and RX-8. Yet as the company hesitates over the future of a ...
The Mazda RX-7 is the sports car that made the rotary engine cool. Like really, really cool. It powered the RX-7 for 24 years, bringing the revolutionary Wankel engine technology to the mass ...
In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...