One of the first major automotive shows covered globally is the Tokyo Auto Salon, annually held in January. It serves as the ...

The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

Once bound by kei car rules, this Mazda Autozam AZ-1 now breaks them all with a widebody and serious firepower ...

Michael Arsenaeu designed the Avadi engine 20 years ago in the hopes of creating an entirely new engine design to be efficient as well as reduce emissions. In 2015, Avadi began the build and ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

It’s common in this line of work to stumble upon a story while researching for another story. Digging through archives and ...

Almost every internal combustion vehicle on the planet today uses the classic piston engine. These run by converting heat energy into reciprocating motion, and then rotary motion that ultimately ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...