The 2004 Mazda RX-8 arrived as a high-stakes bet that sports car buyers would still embrace a rotary engine in an era ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan - It is a surprisingly low-tech finale for such a high-tech process. In a sealed, soundproofed and temperature-controlled room at Mazda's engine plant No. 2 here, parts that elsewhere ...

From the 1970 R100 coupe to the RX-8, Mazda Has Steadily Refined the Rotary Recently, Mazda's new RENESIS Rotary Engine was named "International Engine of the Year 2003", at Engine Expo 2003 in ...

May 14, 2003 Mazda's new RENESIS rotary engine, which powers the all-new Mazda RX-8, has been named "International Engine of the Year 2003." The prestigious award was presented earlier this week at ...

As much as we like our titanium gray Mazda RX-8's crafty, four-door coupe styling and its practical, pillarless rear Freestyle doors that make the +2 portion of the car actually usable, the nagging ...

Ever since Mazda introduced its ambitious Sky G gasoline and Sky D diesel engines at the 2009 Tokyo auto show, things have been looking, uh, up. But when we sat down with Robert Davis, Mazda USA ...

Mazda has announced this week that it will be extending the US-market warranty on the Renesis rotary engine—currently found in the RX-8—to eight years/100,000miles (whichever comes first, as usual).

It's been a long, awesome ride for the rotary engine, but it's the end of the line for the quirky, pistonless Wankel engine in Mazda cars (for now): the automaker made its last rotary engine this week ...

As the saying goes, Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. In other words, boredom can be your worst enemy, and as Project RX-8 sat accumulating snow this winter, our idle brains couldn’t help but cook ...

Mazda's new RENESIS rotary engine, the power within the all-new Mazda RX-8 sports car, was today named "International Engine of the Year 2003" in a ceremony at Engine Expo 2003 in Stuttgart, Germany.