Despite electrification taking the lead as an alternative source of propulsion, some automakers, including Toyota, Honda, and ...

Jack Hubbell is a European based writer and automotive enthusiast who joined the HotCars team in 2024. Jack has been building cars and motorcycles since a young age and was a member of the SCCA from ...

Mazda hasn't offered a rotary-engined car since the RX-8 was given the axe in 2012. That doesn't mean the Wankel engine is gone for good, and a new report coming out of Australia finds the ...

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

Defined by its iconic design, balanced driving dynamics and signature rotary heart, the Mazda RX-7 stood as one of Japan's most ambitious sports cars. Over its three-generation lifespan, the RX-7 ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

Mazda CEO Masahiro Moro has introduced the new Vision-X Coupe at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo. It’s a stylish four-door coupe created for 2035. The company kept details about the styling brief, ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary powerplant boasts a proud and storied endurance racing career that began and ended in truly spectacular fashion. The rotary first took to a European circuit in anger in 1968, ...

Race cars aren't often remembered unless they mean something special; usually, it's the team or the driver that holds the recognition, the car is but a mere tool to achieve the desired result. However ...

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 ...