The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

Not only was the Mazda Cosmo one of the first-ever production cars to feature a two-rotor Wankel engine, but it was also Mazda's first-ever sports car, spawning a lineage of some of the most ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

Mazda is most noted for its rotary engine, developed by Felix Wankel in Germany before World War II. But of all its rotary-powered cars, one stands out.

Mazda is one of the more prominent car brands in the world that isn't a under a giant corporation. Mazda did partner with Ford for a number of years — from 1979 until 2015 — but it was never an ...