Shortly after, in 1951, Wankel partnered with motorcycle and car manufacturer NSU and just six years later he and NSU completed a prototype rotary engine called the DKM. This first working ...

Here are our top 10 picks. You can find out more about rotary engines here. First on our list comes the earliest production Wankel motorcycle. The Hercules, which was marketed as a DKW in the UK, was ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors ...

The German car and motorcycle maker NSU was the first company to offer Wankel’s rotary engine in a production vehicle, but Mazda was the company that genuinely popularized this unconventional ...

Automotive news outlet InsideEVs speculates that the derivative may be a Wankel-powered hybrid like the Mazda MX-30 R-EV currently sold in markets other than the U.S. The MX-30 only saw a brief ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Wankel Engines Market by Type (Water Cooled and Air Cooled), and Application (Automotive and Aerospace): Global Opportunity Analysis and ...

Let me clarify: I call it that because the piston rotates inside the combustion chamber, not because there’s any Mazda-type rotary Wankel analogy ... s full-sized motorcycle – puts out 15.5 ...

We've had quite a run of No Dice losses of late, and at $9,000, the 1975 Suzuki RE5 Wankel motorcycle we looked at yesterday continued that trend. A unique and clean presentation couldn't overcome ...

Post-war, Wankel was imprisoned briefly but was later able to partner with German auto and motorcycle producer NSU in 1951, where he continued his rotary engine research and development.

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 ...

Although some manufacturers expended considerable time and cost on development, the Wankel rotary engine always struggled to find acceptance amongst the conservative motorcycle buyer. The first ...