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Honda’s Quiet Georgia Plant Just Hit 5 Million Gearboxes

Honda’s Quiet Georgia Plant Just Hit 5 Million Gearboxes

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

A small plant in Tallapoosa, Georgia, just quietly passed a milestone that says more about Honda’s American manufacturing strategy than any press conference ever could. Five million transmissions built since 2006, every single 10-speed automatic in a U.S.-assembled Honda or…

Chrysler’s $20K Hail Mary: A Car Called Pronto

Chrysler’s $20K Hail Mary: A Car Called Pronto

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

A Pennsylvania Chrysler dealer just let slip what Stellantis has been keeping close to the vest. Dave Kelleher told The Detroit News that last fall,…

Tesla’s Virtual Waitlist Aims to End Supercharger Brawls

Tesla’s Virtual Waitlist Aims to End Supercharger Brawls

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

Five Supercharger locations across California and New York are now running Tesla’s new Virtual Waitlist pilot, a system born out of something no automaker wants…

Tesla’s Model S Goodbye Party Bumped for Musk’s China Trip

Tesla’s Model S Goodbye Party Bumped for Musk’s China Trip

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

Tesla bumped its Model S and Model X Signature Edition delivery event from May 12 to May 20 after Elon Musk accepted a seat on…

Toyota Wins Japan’s First-Ever Auto Design IP Award

Toyota Wins Japan’s First-Ever Auto Design IP Award

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

Toyota just became the first automaker to win the Japan Patent Office Commissioner’s Award for design-category intellectual property, a recognition that traces back nearly four…

Audi Q9 Beats BMW’s Next X7 to Market With Auto Doors

Audi Q9 Beats BMW’s Next X7 to Market With Auto Doors

Wheel Front Team May 12, 2026

Audi just fired its opening shot in the full-size luxury SUV war, and it landed before BMW could even reload. The first official interior images…

China’s Car Sales Crater as Oil Shock Bites Hard

China’s Car Sales Crater as Oil Shock Bites Hard

Wheel Front Team May 11, 2026

China’s passenger vehicle sales cratered 21.5 percent in April, dropping to 1.4 million units — the worst April since Covid lockdowns gutted the market in…

Tesla’s Cameras Now Deploy Airbags Before Impact

Tesla’s Cameras Now Deploy Airbags Before Impact

Wheel Front Team May 11, 2026

Seventy milliseconds. That’s the edge Tesla claims its new “Vision” software gives occupants before a crash, using the car’s existing external cameras to spot an…

Tesla’s Secret Weapon for EU Approval? Irish Back Roads

Tesla’s Secret Weapon for EU Approval? Irish Back Roads

Wheel Front Team May 11, 2026

Ireland is in talks with Tesla about approving Full Self-Driving Supervised on its roads. The country’s Department of Transport confirmed on May 10 that Tesla…

VW America’s Morale Is Now Worse Than Dieselgate

VW America’s Morale Is Now Worse Than Dieselgate

Wheel Front Team May 11, 2026

Someone inside Volkswagen’s American operations told Germany’s Handelsblatt that morale is now “worse than during the diesel scandal.” Let that sink in. During Dieselgate, executives…