Mazda's history with the rotary goes back to the early 1960s when it licensed Wankel technology from West German automaker NSU, now part of Audi. Created by Felix Wankel in the early '50s, the rotary ...

Fifty years ago today, Mazda sent a shockwave through the industry by offering for sale the world's first rotary powered sports car—the beautiful and futuristic Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S. Despite its ...

Do you think Henry Ford would have expected people to become obsessed with the automobile? Well, not everyone is going to take things so far, but petrolheads do it every day. And most petrolheads hold ...

The 1968 Mazda Cosmo Sport rarely appears on bedroom posters or auction headlines, yet it quietly launched one of the boldest experiments in performance engineering. Beneath its delicate coupe body ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lyon is based in Tokyo and writes about the car industry. This year, Mazda is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its ...

When you take a look back at the extensive timeline of the automobile, there are plenty of brands that have a particular affinity with a certain type of engineering solution or technology. Think of ...

Rotary-powered classics like the 1967 Cosmo Sport 110S will join (and almost certainly overshadow) the new cars. The Cosmo is one of just three examples brought to the U.S. by Curtiss-Wright for ...

Designed and championed by self-taught engineer Felix Wankel, the rotary engine is now most closely associated with Japanese automaker Mazda. Many of the greatest Mazdas ever made, including the RX-7 ...

View post: Driving a Brand-New Car Every Week Makes Me Fall Back in Love with My Old Fleet Every Time. Here’s Why. The Mazda Cosmo pioneered the brand’s sports cars and showcased innovative rotary ...

Mazda was only building real cars for four years when this bit of bizarre genius was unleashed on the world in concept form in 1964. Reaching production in 1967, the Cosmo was Mazda's first sports car ...

Mazda is bringing the rotary engine back next year, but it’s hard to get excited about its use as a range extender in the MX-30. The news was a bitter pill to swallow, but we’ve found the antidote in ...

The space-age-inspired Cosmo 21 prototype was built to be a rotary-powered sports car based on the Mazda Miata NB, and it was a magnificent piece of design - and a model Mazda should have built in ...