In the late 1960s, when most sedans still looked and drove like rolling conservatism, NSU put a radical four-door on the road ...

The first time the public saw the 1968 Mazda Cosmo, it looked like a spaceship that had somehow slipped onto a show stand.

Mazda is forced to increasingly depend on its US-based production facility in Huntsville, Alabama, which is a joint ...

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 ...

One of the first major automotive shows covered globally is the Tokyo Auto Salon, annually held in January. It serves as the opening salvo that the new year has begun for auto enthusiasts. Given the ...

Perfectly tuning the heat range of an engine's spark plugs is something of a dark art to all but the most well versed tuners and the engineering egg heads at automotive OEMs. Getting the spark plug ...

Just as teen fashion from the ’90s has resurfaced at your nearest Target (Why???), everything old is apparently new again. Honda brought back the Integra, the Prelude is due next, and a Toyota exec ...

How Mazda's engineers doubled down on rotary power when everyone else gave up, creating a 30-year legend in the process.

It is quite ironic that internal combustion engines (ICEs) have remained basically the same for more than one hundred years. It is only now – when they are allegedly on the verge of disappearing – ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...