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Audi RS5 Goes Hybrid, Gains 200 HP and 1,000 Pounds

Audi RS5 Goes Hybrid, Gains 200 HP and 1,000 Pounds

Wheel Front Team Mar 3, 2026

The tail is out, the tires are screaming, and Rolf Michl, the man who runs Audi Sport, is grinning from the passenger seat. “I see you smiling,” he tells the journalist behind the wheel. “This is good.” That scene, repeated…

Audi’s Electric Sports Car Is Real and Coming in 2027

Audi’s Electric Sports Car Is Real and Coming in 2027

Wheel Front Team Mar 3, 2026

Audi CEO Gernot Döllner has confirmed the Concept C sports car will enter production by late 2027, giving the struggling four-ring brand a halo car…

The AMG S63 Tackles Highway 1 Like a $200K Couch

The AMG S63 Tackles Highway 1 Like a $200K Couch

Wheel Front Team Mar 1, 2026

There’s something almost absurd about piloting a 791-horsepower plug-in hybrid luxury sedan down one of the most treacherous stretches of coastal highway in North America.…

Buc-ee’s Is Bringing Its Gas Station Empire to Seven New States, and the Midwest Will Never Be the Same

Buc-ee’s Is Bringing Its Gas Station Empire to Seven New States, and the Midwest Will Never Be the Same

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

There are gas stations you stop at because you have to. Then there’s Buc-ee’s, the kind of place you actually plan your road trip around.…

Jim Farley Admits Ford Got EVs Wrong, Says Tearing Apart a Tesla Was the Wake-Up Call

Jim Farley Admits Ford Got EVs Wrong, Says Tearing Apart a Tesla Was the Wake-Up Call

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

Five years into steering Ford Motor Company, CEO Jim Farley isn’t sugarcoating the mess. The F-150 Lightning is dead. Partnerships with Korean battery makers have…

Mercedes-Benz Wants to Cure Your Car Sickness With Wind and Light

Mercedes-Benz Wants to Cure Your Car Sickness With Wind and Light

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

Every automaker on the planet seems to have a patent for combating motion sickness. Most of them read like science fiction — active vibration cancellation,…

Nearly Every Gas Station in New York City Is Selling You the Wrong Octane — and Getting Away With It

Nearly Every Gas Station in New York City Is Selling You the Wrong Octane — and Getting Away With It

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

If you’ve ever filled up in New York City and felt like something was off, you weren’t imagining things. A staggering 96 percent of gas…

U.S. Army Shoots Down Its Own Side’s Drone With Anti-Drone Laser Near El Paso, Triggering Four-Month Airspace Shutdown

U.S. Army Shoots Down Its Own Side’s Drone With Anti-Drone Laser Near El Paso, Triggering Four-Month Airspace Shutdown

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

You really cannot make this stuff up. Just weeks after the U.S. Army let Customs and Border Patrol borrow its high-energy laser weapon to blast…

Auto Start-Stop Won’t Kill Your Engine, and Here’s Why Automakers Have Already Thought of That

Auto Start-Stop Won’t Kill Your Engine, and Here’s Why Automakers Have Already Thought of That

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

Few features in modern cars generate as much disdain from drivers as auto start-stop. You pull up to a red light, the engine shuts off,…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Learned to Navigate Mars Without Calling Home

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Learned to Navigate Mars Without Calling Home

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

For five years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been doing something almost painfully relatable. Every time it got a little lost on Mars, it stopped driving,…