Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

Ah, the Wankel ... whose engines are worked on by Pulse Performance. Scroll below to see the video and hear it for yourself. The engine's sound is not what you would expect from a rotary, and ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors ...

A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an eccentric ...

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What most people may not realize is that a German originally created the rotary engine that powered those Japanese Mazda vehicles. Felix Wankel was born in Lahr, Germany, in 1902, and worked as an ...