You didn’t need to look too hard at the Iconic SP to see a viable car beneath its concept’s sleek lines. “I have to be very careful what I say here,” said Masashi Nakayama, the general manager at ...

It would have been easy to write rotary engines off the speculative books at Mazda — poor milage and questionable long-term reliability made traditional piston engines seem favorable to many.

On Sept. 14, the automaker unveiled its first rotary engine-mounted passenger car for the Japanese market in 11 years. The vehicle in question is the plug-in Mazda MX-30 Rotary-EV gas-electric ...