The Mazda RX-7 drift car uses a 4-rotor rotary engine while performing aggressive sideways runs at Goodwood. Thick tire smoke ...

Austin police officers did not issue a single citation or warning under the city's new vehicle engine noise ordinance during its first three months in effect, despite dedicating nearly 95 overtime ...

Cummins is delaying the launch of its 10-liter X10 and the new 7-liter B-Series engines, multiple dealers and OEMs have confirmed to CCJ. For calendar year 2027, Cummins will continue offering the ...

Jack Hubbell is a European based writer and automotive enthusiast who joined the HotCars team in 2024. Jack has been building cars and motorcycles since a young age and was a member of the SCCA from ...

The Wankel rotary engine offers one of the most unique sounds of any ICE. Most famously used in various legendary Mazdas like the RX-7 and the supposedly banned Le ...

A unique selling point of cars with “explosion” engines (internal combustion) is our visceral reaction to the sounds they make. Even when you’re standing blocks away from the Woodward Dream Cruise, a ...

Arctic Cat sold almost 32,000 sleds with Wankel rotary engines between 1968 and 1975, several times more than all the rest of the snowmobile industry combined. And with about 10,000 units, the 1972 ...

There have only been a handful of rotary engine-powered cars, and most of them start with "Mazda." While fascinating and not without their benefits, rotary engines are pretty inefficient, don't make a ...

Rotary engines carry a mixed public reputation that is partly justified and partly overstated. The Wankel design presents mechanical weaknesses that piston engines do not face. Apex seal degradation ...

Sometimes we get fixated on things: songs, hobbies, or romantic interests. But that sometimes also happens in the automotive space – whether the real one or the fictional realm. If you want an ...

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 ...

Most car enthusiasts associate the term “rotary engine” with Felix Wankel’s invention, developed in the 1950s and most commonly associated with Mazda. However, more than half a century before the ...