With news that Chevrolet is playing with the idea of a mid-engine Corvette, we are reminded of several that date back more than 40 years ago. That was the same time when major automobile manufacturers ...

From 1960 to 1973 there were at least 10 functional mid-engine Corvette prototypes. The 4-Rotor didn't have a dedicated "XP" number because it was a variation of the XP-882. The Wankel engine ...

The turbocharged, rotary-powered FD Mazda RX-7 is one of the most legendary Japanese cars ever, but even with modifications, it was never really the hypercar-slayer that its owners dreamed it to ...

Coming after the news that they filed a trademark for an R logo similar to that of the Spirit R, Mazda has now done the same for another one of it’s icons: the rotary engine. The trademark filing ...

The XP-892 just flat-out caught everyone short. After nearly a decade of shark-proportioned Corvette experimentals, everyone was left wondering, “It doesn’t look like a Corvette.” And that engine, ...

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“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 ...

From 1960 to 1973 there were at least 10 functional mid-engine Corvette prototypes. The 4-Rotor didn’t have a dedicated “XP” number because it was a variation of the XP-882. The Wankel engine ...