Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.

Suzuki took a calculated risk in the ‘70s and played around with a Wankel rotary engine on a motorcycle resembling a café racer. The RE5 is a smooth ride (or so says Jay Leno) and boasts a sub ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...