Mazda’s CEO said the response to the Iconic-SP concept was good enough to restart rotary engine development, too.

The first rotary engines were primarily used for aircraft during World War I, but the design was abandoned due to flaws and inefficiencies. In 1954, German engineer Felix Wankel invented a new ...

The next engineering enhancement for the new rotary engine will be a focus on ignition. Unfortunately the engineer couldn’t explain on how the Japanese automaker plans on addressing that problem.

The Wankel rotary is an example of a design which makes sense on paper ... he bragged to his friends that his car used a new type of engine – half turbine, half reciprocating.

This new engine family will extend beyond the four-cylinder variant, with plans to use SkyActiv-Z technology in inline-six ...

The previous one suffered from high temperatures and sealing issues (as the most popular rotary engines ... was the new CTO. Dimitrios Dardalis apparently found the design that would solve ...

Developed specially as a showcase car for the new engine technology ... decision lay in the inherent design characteristics of the rotary, being a very smooth engine with low torque curve in ...

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As rotary engines are very compact by design the physical size of the engine is significantly smaller than a traditional combustion engine, leading to obvious benefits with weight saving and ...