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Cadillac’s $300K Purple Celestiq Debuts at Monterey

Cadillac’s $300K Purple Celestiq Debuts at Monterey

Wheel Front Team Aug 12, 2026

Cadillac will unveil a one-off Celestiq commission called “Night Test” at The Quail during Monterey Car Week, dressed in a moody purple called Caspia Metallic and rolling on dark-finish 23-inch wheels with jade accents. The press release reads like a…

GM’s Express and Savana Get 2020 Tech in 2027

GM’s Express and Savana Get 2020 Tech in 2027

Wheel Front Team Aug 12, 2026

General Motors is giving its Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana commercial vans a 7.0-inch touchscreen for the 2027 model year. The system runs GM’s Infotainment…

Jaguar’s Type 01 Interior Abandons Every Tradition

Jaguar’s Type 01 Interior Abandons Every Tradition

Wheel Front Team Aug 12, 2026

The burl walnut is gone. The leather-wrapped heritage, the chrome toggle switches, the gentleman’s club ambiance that defined decades of Jaguar cabins. All of it,…

Cadillac Wants $55K Extra to Hand-Paint Your Escalade IQ

Cadillac Wants $55K Extra to Hand-Paint Your Escalade IQ

Wheel Front Team Aug 12, 2026

Cadillac just put a price on exclusivity, and it costs roughly the same as a well-equipped Chevrolet Equinox EV. The brand’s new Curated by Cadillac…

GM Dumps $3.5B Samsung Battery Plant Stake

GM Dumps $3.5B Samsung Battery Plant Stake

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

General Motors has decided to dump its 49.99% stake in a $3.5 billion joint battery plant with Samsung in Indiana, handing full ownership to the…

Toyota Recalls 500K Camrys That Can Go Dark at Startup

Toyota Recalls 500K Camrys That Can Go Dark at Startup

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

A half-million Toyota Camrys just earned a trip back to the dealer because their instrument clusters can go completely blank when the car starts up,…

Used EV Prices Surge 10.5% as Gas Tops $4 a Gallon

Used EV Prices Surge 10.5% as Gas Tops $4 a Gallon

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

The Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index for July 2026 landed at 210, up 1.3% year over year. A modest number on its own. But buried…

Dodge’s 600-HP Super Bee Is Just the Warm-Up Act

Dodge’s 600-HP Super Bee Is Just the Warm-Up Act

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

The 2027 Dodge Charger Super Bee makes 600 horsepower from a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six. It is not a V8. And according to Dodge CEO Matt…

Ford’s New Truck Isn’t Called Ranchero, and That’s the Point

Ford’s New Truck Isn’t Called Ranchero, and That’s the Point

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

Ford had a perfectly good legacy name sitting in the vault. The Ranchero, its answer to Chevy’s El Camino, carries decades of car-truck nostalgia. Slap…

BMW Bets Neue Klasse Can Stop Its China Bleeding

BMW Bets Neue Klasse Can Stop Its China Bleeding

Wheel Front Team Aug 11, 2026

Sales down 30.2 percent in the first half of 2026. That is the number hanging over BMW’s entire Chengdu Motor Show strategy, and it explains…