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 valves to ...

That alone reduces emissions and increases engine longevity. The rotary valve also means that the blockages caused by conventional poppet valves are not an issue as poppet valves are not needed in ...

Mazda has been the only carmaker to manufacture Felix Wankel’s rotary engine design in volume, and the design went out of production when the RX-8 left the market in 2012. The2022 Mazda MX-30 hybrid ...

We’ve covered the engine sound simulator here before, but there’s been one element that’s been missing from the bizarre mix for too long. Yes, the world loves to know what an 11-cylinder engine could ...