Automotive News

BMW Hits 150,000 Bikes in Brazil as Global Sales Slide

BMW Hits 150,000 Bikes in Brazil as Global Sales Slide

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

BMW Motorrad just rolled its 150,000th motorcycle off the line at its Manaus plant in Brazil, a factory that didn’t exist a decade ago. The milestone bike, an R 1300 GS Adventure in Triple Black trim, came together at what…

Honda’s Hot July Hides a Messier Global Picture

Honda’s Hot July Hides a Messier Global Picture

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

American Honda sold 124,553 vehicles across its Honda and Acura brands last month, a 12.8% jump that marks the company’s best July since 2019. Sedan…

California’s MyFirstEV Program Splits the Tab With Automakers

California’s MyFirstEV Program Splits the Tab With Automakers

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

California launched its MyFirstEV incentive program on August 3, offering first-time electric vehicle buyers $3,500 off a new purchase or $1,750 off a used one.…

Mazda Sales Slide 13%, but the Mazda3 Refuses to Die

Mazda Sales Slide 13%, but the Mazda3 Refuses to Die

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

Mazda moved 39,180 vehicles in the U.S. during July, a 13 percent decline from the same month last year. The year-to-date picture isn’t much prettier,…

BMW’s Monterey Takeover: Concepts, Race Cars, and M3

BMW’s Monterey Takeover: Concepts, Race Cars, and M3

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

BMW is hauling two concept cars, six street M3s, four race-prepped M3s, and a fashion collaboration to the Monterey Peninsula next week. The August 13-16…

Mercedes Kills the EQA, Folds EVs Into the GLA

Mercedes Kills the EQA, Folds EVs Into the GLA

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

The EQA badge is dead after a single generation. Mercedes-Benz has rolled its electric compact SUV into the 2028 GLA, creating one model line where…

500 Gallons of Farm Diesel Vanished in California

500 Gallons of Farm Diesel Vanished in California

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

Five hundred gallons of diesel don’t walk off a farm by themselves. Somebody has to show up with a pump, a tank, and enough nerve…

Lamborghini’s 99-Unit Revuelto Honors the Miura at 60

Lamborghini’s 99-Unit Revuelto Honors the Miura at 60

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

Lamborghini will produce exactly 99 units of the Revuelto Miura 60° Homage, wrapping its 1001-horsepower hybrid supercar in the visual language of a machine that…

Audi’s CEO Killed Bad Door Handles With 45 Weeks to Spare

Audi’s CEO Killed Bad Door Handles With 45 Weeks to Spare

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

Forty-five weeks before showing the 2027 Audi Q9 to journalists in Munich, CEO Gernot Döllner ripped the electronic door handles off his new flagship SUV.…

Polaris Drops a 275-HP Bomb on the Side-by-Side Wars

Polaris Drops a 275-HP Bomb on the Side-by-Side Wars

Wheel Front Team Aug 4, 2026

Fifty thousand dollars for a side-by-side. That’s where we are now. Polaris just unveiled the 2027 RZR Pro R Boost, a turbocharged off-road machine that…