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In 1991 the R26B-powered Mazda 787B became the first Japanese car and the first car with anything other than a reciprocating piston engine to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans race outright. The R26B engine displaced 2.6 L (2,616 cc) per set of four chambers (counting only one 654 cc (39.9 cu in) chamber for each of the four rotors) – thus the "26 ...
Mazda's strength since the 1960s has been in its line of Inline-4 engines. Beginning with a tiny 358 cc kei car engine, one of the smallest ever made, Mazda continues to this day to be a leading developer of this type of engine. OHV engine – 358 cc–1.2 L OHV I4 (1961–1974) xC engine – 1.0 L–2.0 L SOHC I4 (1965–1983)
The Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE is a 2003 bi-fuel version of the RX-8 sports car, in which the twin-rotor wankel rotary engine is configured to run on either hydrogen or gasoline. This is the fifth Mazda vehicle to be fitted with a hydrogen wankel rotary engine .
The Mazda RX-7 is a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, rotary engine-powered sports car that was manufactured and marketed by Mazda from 1978 until 2002 across three generations, all of which made use of a compact, lightweight Wankel rotary engine.
Mazda claimed to have solved the apex seal problem, operating test engines at high speed for 300 hours without failure. [11] After years of development, Mazda's first rotary engine car was the 1967 Cosmo 110S. The company followed with several Wankel ("rotary" in the company's terminology) vehicles, including a bus and a pickup truck. Customers ...
Pages in category "Cars powered by Wankel engines" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... Mazda 717C; Mazda 727C; Mazda 737C; Mazda 757 ...
The following year, Mazda entered the MXR-01, based on the Jaguar XJR-14 and powered by a Judd unit, without much success (placed fourth at Le Mans in 1992). Despite the Le Mans success of the 787B and its Wankel powerplant, Mazda did not exploit its historic victory through marketing campaigns and advertising [clarification needed]. It ...
1971-1991 Mazda Savanna sports car; 1972–1997 Parkway minibus; 1973–1997 929 full-size car; 1978–2002 RX-7 sports car; 1978–2003 626, export version of the Mazda Capella; 1988–1992 Persona mid-size car; 1988–2002 121 compact car; 1988–1997 MX-6 coupé; 1988–2016 MPV/Mazda8 minivan; 1990–1998 Sentia luxury car; 1990–1998 MX-3 ...