Combination car nuts/Monty Python fanatics can't hear the words "Wankel rotary engine" without imagining John Cleese's pompous English accent turning it into a dirty phrase. For the power-lusting ...

The whole notion of heading to sunny Daytona Beach, Florida, on spring break never appealed to me, not even when I was in college in the cold, gray Northeast. The all-night parties, bad dancing, and ...

While Mazda continues to play with the idea of keeping the Wankel engine under the spotlights, many of the stories on the mater obviously revolve around the rotary hardware, we are now here to discuss ...

Fifty years ago today, Mazda sent a shockwave through the industry by offering for sale the world's first rotary powered sports car—the beautiful and futuristic Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S. Despite its ...

Fans of the Wankel engine who are torn between mourning the late RX-8 and holding out hope for a new RX-7 have a third option: embracing vintage Mazda rotary power. And while there's certainly nothing ...

You can’t talk about the history of the Japanese sportscar without thinking of what Mazda has done. America has the Corvette, with its V8 motor, but Japan has something altogether smaller, powered by ...

The first-generation Cosmo was sold from 1967 to 1972, and only 1,176 were built in total, not including 83 prototypes. This Cosmo is one of the earlier Series I models, also known as the Cosmo 110S, ...

Mazda took the racing world by surprise when it won the 1991 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The victory was significant ...

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It was 50 years ago today that Mazda unveiled its first rotary-powered car to the world. The car was the Cosmo 110S sports car which made its debut at the 1967 Tokyo auto show. It was Mazda’s first ...

Although it showed plenty of promise during development, the rotary engine was never widely used. Rotary (or Wankel) engines are renowned for smoothness, but they chew through fuel and lack torque ...

The Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S turns 50 this year, and the company has big plans to celebrate it. After all, the little sports car is quite special to Mazda; it was the first mass-produced sports car to ...