When people say rotary engine, they usually mean Wankel. Mazda put it in some of their coolest cars, and recently in the ...

The Wankel engine is the most famous rotary engine, but it isn't the only kind. While they aren't as common these days, they haven't fully gone away.

If you're a fan of the Wankel rotary engine - or any sports car powered by a Wankel rotary engine (we're looking at you, RX-7 fans), it should be. Dr. Felix Heinrich Wankel was born on August 13 ...

GeoTek Energy Promises to Reinvent the Rotary Engine, Not a Wankel Published: 24 Jul 2014, 14:51 UTC • By: Gabriel Brindusescu 5 photos ...

Here was a 29horsepower engine weighing only 26¾ pounds. It had no valves, no pistons, no connecting rods, no reciprocating parts of any kind, no crankshaft.

Rob Dahm’s adopted custom 12-rotor Wankel engine project needs a lot of detail work and some hefty reengineering before it can be pushed to the maximum. Chris Rosales Jul 8, 2023 12:09 PM EDT 0 ...

The Wankel rotary engine is known for its troubled life in the mainstream automotive industry, its high power-to-weight ratio, and the intoxicating buzz it makes at full tilt. Popular with die-hard… ...

Liquid Piston, a Connecticut-based engineering firm, has turned the classic Wankel engine design inside out to create a more efficient, and cleaner-burning motor. The X Mini is a little powerhouse ...

" [The Wankel] has this long, skinny, moving combustion chamber. It's probably the worst thing you can do for an engine," explained Alec Shkolnik, founder and CEO of LiquidPiston.

The host of this video describes the tiny motor as a "Wankel rotary model aircraft engine," and while it looks very much like a toy, there's nothing toy-like about the classic, rotary-smooth, high ...