Why mazda’s returned to rotary

Head north and keep going towards the end of the A1 – a simple plan to find out what the Mazda’s range-extender tech can really deliver.

Let’s wind back to 2012: Britain is gripped by Olympic fever as Vauxhall launches the Ampera and the UK’s first ‘plug-in’ hybrid decisively beats the Volkswagen Up to European Car of the Year glory in

Has the Wankel rotary engine a future?’ asked Motor magazine in its road test of the RX-7 in September 1979. Mazda faced a huge challenge in persuading people to buy a rotary-engined road car, however

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LAST year, Audi revised its popular A3 with a set of styling and interior changes, but the biggest upgrade has arguably only just arrived via a new, much improved, plug-in hybrid powertrain. We’ll sta

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