The KKM design was quickly adopted and licensed. This engine is the basis of the modern “Wankel” rotary engine. Piston powered engines, chiefly the Otto and Diesel cycle, are current kings of ...

Discover the wild story of Mazda's REPU, the fascinating and flawed rotary-powered pickup truck experiment from the 1970s.

Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

Thus rotary engines tend to have high specific outputs ... The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine with 345bhp ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The rotary engine is one of the most pleasing solutions in engineering history. Where conventional engines convert the lateral push and pull movement of pistons into ...

Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s smooth operation ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.