A Wankel engine is a type of rotary engine, but not all rotary engines are Wankel engines. Wrapping your mind around this idea will help you to better understand the similarities as well as the ...

However, due to the rotary combustion engine's working principles, few engineers could overcome its challenges. In the end, only one car manufacturer achieved volume production: Mazda. Wankel also ...

Imagine triangles spinning around a shower curtain rod inside a beer keg—that is an elemental description of the screaming Wankel rotary engine. This powerplant is beloved by gearheads the world ...

Felix Wankel was one of these. Wankel invented the rotary engine that has become Mazda’s signature technology. The new RX-8 sport coupe is the only car on the market to have this power plant ...

Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

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 ...

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr ...

For a time, the Wankel rotary engine seemed like the future. In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal-combustion production car not ...

And boy is it: it seems, back in the 1960s, Rambler and Renault were developing—with an unclear level of seriousness—a deeply strange rotary engine that's not a Wankel-style rotary.

So take everything you know about the Wankel and turn it literally inside out. Moreover, Shkolnik says the company solved the age-old, meme-worthy problem surrounding the rotary engine ...