Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and ...

Born way back in 1992, the third-generation Mazda RX-7 (a.k.a. the iconic FD) has remained popular ever since with rotary engine fans. It should be noted that a model from 1993 – the same year as the ...

Different sports cars, different powertrains, same enthusiastic spirit—and we can't wait. At Mazda, the desire for a Mazda RX-7 successor is there. The Iconic SP concept is the blueprint, too, and a ...

The Mazda RX-7 FD3S features a 4-rotor 26B engine producing a high-revving rotary engine note at 11,000 RPM. This video ...

Mazda's history with the rotary goes back to the early 1960s when it licensed Wankel technology from West German automaker NSU, now part of Audi. Created by Felix Wankel in the early '50s, the rotary ...

It was a cold and damp November morning in 2003 when an Intercity Lines semi-truck pulled up in front of my house in southeastern Michigan. The bounty that was to be unloaded from the 18-wheeler into ...

The oil crisis of the early 1970s nearly forced Mazda to abandon rotary engine designs due to their fuel consumption, at a time of downsizing in the industry. But the existing 12A engine family that ...

Mazda isn’t only working on a next-generation rotary engine, but a turbocharged one at that. According to a recent report from Motoring, the new RX-7 will make its debut in 2017 and the Japanese ...

It's difficult to picture now, but the Mazda RX-7 debuted 40 years ago during the "malaise" era in U.S. history, when Americans were less concerned about sports cars than picking the right gas-miser ...