How does a rotary engine work? Wankel Engines. Explanation of how a rotary engine works. With only 3 moving components, these are an engineering marvel. A look inside at what actually happens.

Today, we explore the Birotary Engine, a unique creation that merges the features of piston and rotary engines. This video ...

Ah, the Wankel rotary engine. The Dorito-spinning engine configuration is perhaps one of the coolest, and financially most terrifying, bits of automotive engineering. Best known for its appearance in ...

The piston engine may be the most common type of internal combustion engine found in consumer automotive vehicles. That doesn't mean it's the only option drivers have ever had access to. In the 1960s, ...

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, ...

If there is one universal truth in the automotive community, it is that rotary engines are completely unhinged pieces of ...

Mazda made a splash in the market in 1990, launching the Eunos Cosmo with the three-rotor 20B engine. Compared with contemporary Wankel rotary engines, the 20B's extra rotor beefed the compact ...

Plenty of families own a Honda Passport, a roomy two-row midsize SUV built for school runs and weekend getaways. Honda Racing has now put that name on something far more extreme: a hybrid desert truck ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...