MUNICH (dpa) – If you look under the bonnet of a car in Germany, Mexico or New Zealand, you will generally see the one type of motor – the internal combustion engine. But 30 years ago it seemed ...

Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel ...

The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic. That ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer who invented the rotary engine, is born on Aug. 13, 1902, in Lahr, Germany. Wankel became fascinated with internal combustion engines at an early age and began ...

Wankel's first DKM54 engine now rests on display at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany. * Photo: Courtesy of Ralf Pfeifer * 1902: Felix Wankel, inventor of the rotary engine, is born in Lahr, ...

Back in 1957, German engineer Felix Wankel displayed a prototype for a new internal combustion engine that used spinning rotors instead of reciprocating pistons to complete each engine cycle. The ...

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Felix Wankel was a dreamer. Specifically, in 1919, at age 17, he dreamed that he invented an engine. While it took him 38 more years to produce a working rotary powerplant and still more to perfect it ...

“The higher the rpm, the better it goes,” Manny Barreiros says of his 1967 NSU Wankel Spider, the first rotary-powered production car. Ironically perhaps, the rev-happy character of the Wankel would ...

We haven’t seen the last of the spinning triangles. Back in March, Martijn ten Brink, Mazda Motor Europe's vice president of sales and customer service, ignited gearheads everywhere when he told Dutch ...