It's as crazy as it sounds. Rolls Royce developed a diesel rotary engine for military applications. Because diesel engines require high compression ratios for compression ignition to occur, they used ...

The Wankel rotary engine was made popular by Mazda, who built rotary style engines from in production cars such as the RX-7, RX-8, and others from 1967 to 2012. The Wankel rotary engine is unique in ...

Half empty or half-full? Despite a 3.3% downturn in U.S. sales last year, Jim Donnelly, President and CEO of Mazda Motor America, Inc., is ever the optimist, convinced the company not only can “crest” ...

Renault India has launched the new-generation Duster SUV. It is available in five broad trims along with a Iconic Launch ...

What is a restomod?A restomod is different from a restoration. In a restoration, a classic car is brought back to original ...

In this episode of Frontline Conversations, author and journalist Sanjoy Hazarika speaks to writer Samrat Choudhury about his latest book, River Traveller, a sweeping blend of memoir, reportage, ...

The rotary was the most radical rethink of the combustion engine in over a hundred years — and it paid the price for being different. Mazda introduced the innovative Wankel rotary engine in the 1967 ...

While modern engines feature many tweaks and improvements on the original ideas, they usually aren't as interesting as the strange contraptions engineers experimented with in the early days. Take, for ...

Does anyone else think the Mazda RX-8 used to be the coolest thing on the road. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t that fast. Nor that its rotary engine burns oil like Snoop burns “za,” and slurps gas ...

In all fairness, Ralph Sarich is not your average Australian. As an inventor, engineer, and property investor, he's done it all, frankly, amassing a great fortune with his engineering and real-estate ...