In 1974, Mazda built 14,336 examples of its Rotary Pickup, the Mazda REPU, for North America. Then sales stalled, Mazda ...
Rotary engines are compact, smooth, and powerful, so why don't more automakers use them? Well, it's complicated.
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 valves to ...
The FD RX-7's 13B-REW was Mazda's rotary masterpiece—but owning one in 2026 comes with a serious financial commitment.