Adams-Farwell: the Iowa car whose entire engine spun around a crankshaft that never moved
Adams-Farwell: five cylinders spinning around a crankshaft that never moved. From an Iowa stove factory to a 1909 helicopter and WWI fighters.
rotary engine
NSU Ro80
The Car That Was Too Honourable to Survive Chris Harris has a line he reaches for when a car does something special: it feels like it was built by people who cared more than the accountants wanted them to. He usually means it as the highest praise. But there’s a version of that sentence that … Read more
MAZDA FURAI
The first journalist to drive it was also the last Bill Thomas didn’t know he was making history. Nobody at Bentwaters Park on August 19th, 2008 thought they were making history. They thought they were making a magazine feature. Top Gear had arranged a photo shoot with Mazda’s Furai concept at the former RAF airbase … Read more
Mazda Skyactiv-Z and the Iconic SP: The Last Carmaker Still Betting on the Rotary
Mazda Skyactiv-Z: the lambda 1 2.5-liter due in 2027, the 36-engineer rotary team, the MX-30 R-EV and the Iconic SP, the RX-7 successor still waiting for a green light.
Wankel: How Mazda Won Le Mans With the Engine Everyone Else Gave Up On
Wankel: the rotary engine GM, NSU and Citroën gave up on, which Mazda took to a 1991 Le Mans win with the 787B and turned into the RX-7 legend.