Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine ...

Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...

It was an era when General Motors threw itself into bold experiments in design, technology, and engineering. The company knew it had to reinvent itself, but just did not know which way to go. So it ...

Rob Dahm, notorious rotary-powered car builder, has firmly jumped into the deep end of the pool with his latest project: The world's only 15.7-liter, tri-turbo Y12 rotary engine. If that doesn't make ...

Rotary engines have almost completely gone out of production, but they’re still beloved by enthusiasts. Eschewing pistons for a spinning three-sided rotor, they rev to the moon and sound great doing ...

All photos on this page are of the two-rotor.Wouldn't those headlights look better if the Feds would let them put a glass cover over the hole? Conventional gauges and controls hint this version may be ...

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...