Mazda’s 13B rotary engine did more than power a string of sports cars. It forced an entire engineering department to think differently about combustion, packaging, and character, and it left a mark on ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Mazda unleashed its all-encompassing Skyactiv automotive technologies in 2010 to increase fuel economy with zero penalties to handling and performance. Although Skyactiv became increasingly known for ...

Mazda’s SKYACTIV-Z tech could change the way automakers and drivers look at gas-powered engines amid today’s significant EV investment push. Expert engineer Masahisa Yamakawa at Mazda said that heat ...

Mazda has developed a wide variety of engines and propulsion systems over the years. Famously, Mazda pioneered rotary technology, but the Japanese automaker has also developed rotary hybrids, fully ...

Mazda has historically insisted on building its own engines in-house, starting at its Hiroshima plants in Japan and later expanding production to regional facilities in China, Mexico, and Thailand to ...

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, ...

The Honda S2000, the Mazda RX-8, the Ferrari 458, the Porsche GT3. What all of these cars have in common is that in stock form they'll rev all the way to 9,000 RPM, if not faster. But what allows for ...