Mazda has been building reliable automobiles for almost a century. Founded in 1920 as a cork manufacturer (originally Toyo Cork Kogyo) by Jujuro Matsuda, the business completed its transition into the ...

You hear endless myths about the Mazda RX-7, from breathless praise of its “magic” to horror stories about blown apex seals.

The rotary engine is unique in its success and failure and its ability to make an impact with a completely different way of thinking. As it is, every production car for the last 130 years, aside from ...

Mazda has developed a wide variety of engines and propulsion systems over the years. Famously, Mazda pioneered rotary technology, but the Japanese automaker has also developed rotary hybrids, fully ...

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, ...

How the 13B-MSP Renesis evolved from earlier Mazda rotary designs, technical features explained, and common problems and maintenance issues discussed. The 13B-MSP Renesis rotary engine powered the ...

TOKYO — Mazda is tipping its hand about future plans for the brand's trademark rotary engine. Mazda, in a press release celebrating the company's 100-year anniversary, says the rotary likely will ...

Mazda has historically insisted on building its own engines in-house, starting at its Hiroshima plants in Japan and later expanding production to regional facilities in China, Mexico, and Thailand to ...