What followed were more than 200 victories for Mazda with rotary engines in the touring car racing series, and 13 failed attempts to win Le Mans. Mazda didn't give up, however, and at the 14th ...

Some cars have a special kind of aura around them, don’t they? We know, rationally speaking, that they’re an inanimate set of components, a collection of metal and rubber and composite.

The iconic Mazda 767B will return to Adelaide with Le Mans winner Stefan Johansson set to get behind the wheel.

Mazda raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 18 years before winning in 1991, then took its rotary-powered 787B out of the running. Mazda was been providing its four-cylinder MZR engines for the past ...

For comparison's sake, Mazda's own Le Mans-winning 787 prototype utilized ... The engine's sound is not what you would expect from a rotary, and if we're being honest we don't find it terribly ...

In 1991, Mazda became both the first, and only Japanese manufacturer to ever win the Le Mans 24 Hours. It also did so with a unique engine – a rotary unit with four rotors, three spark plugs per ...

The Mazda RX-8 came equipped with a ... Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

Mazda has joined in on the fun with its own Vision Gran Turismo called the LM55. Paying homage to the Japanese automaker’s success at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Mazda LM55 is inspired by ...

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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 ...