The 1967 NSU Ro 80 looked like it had driven in from the future, with a slippery body, a glassy, sparse cabin and a ...
Rotary engines differ from conventional ones in many respects — and one of them is the fact that they use two different spark ...
While modern engines feature many tweaks and improvements on the original ideas, they usually aren't as interesting as the strange contraptions engineers experimented with in the early days. Take, for ...
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 ...
The Wankel rotary engine is known for its troubled life in the mainstream automotive industry, its high power-to-weight ratio, and the intoxicating buzz it makes at full tilt. Popular with die-hard ...
The Mazda RX-8 has always had a cult following, but the rotary engine can scare off buyers who want something simpler to live with. That’s exactly why swaps like this exist. A V6-swapped RX-8 ...