a cornerstone of Industrial Revolution, devised a rotary steam engine in the 1700s. In the modern age, it was German engineer Felix Wankel who had the idea of a rotary gasoline engine with the tried and true Otto combustion cycle. In the end, however, the dream...
The rotary engine quickly became the cornerstone of Mazda’s U.S. strategy. While the rotary engine’s fuel consumption had already become a sales obstacle in markets with higher fuel prices, that wasn’t yet a major concern for American buyers, and the rotary engine’s power, smoothness, a...