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Google Maps Goes 3D and Gets a Chatbot. Here’s What It Means.

Google Maps Goes 3D and Gets a Chatbot. Here’s What It Means.

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Google Maps on Thursday launched its most aggressive overhaul in a decade, replacing the familiar two-dimensional driving view with a fully rendered 3D environment and bolting on a Gemini AI chatbot that can answer free-form questions mid-trip. The company calls…

Hyundai’s MobED Robot Ditches the Show Floor for Real Sales

Hyundai’s MobED Robot Ditches the Show Floor for Real Sales

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Hyundai Motor Group just assembled a 15-partner coalition to sell robots in South Korea. Not demonstrate them. Not tease them on a CES stage. Sell…

Lucid Finally Adds CarPlay to Its Gravity SUV. That’s Not a Win.

Lucid Finally Adds CarPlay to Its Gravity SUV. That’s Not a Win.

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Lucid Motors is pushing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to its Gravity SUV starting March 12, plugging what had become an embarrassing gap in an…

BMW’s iX3 Is So Hot the Factory Can’t Keep Up

BMW’s iX3 Is So Hot the Factory Can’t Keep Up

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

One out of every three BMW electric vehicles ordered in Europe right now is an iX3. That single statistic tells you everything about how quickly…

Honda Kills Three EVs and Eats a $15.8 Billion Loss

Honda Kills Three EVs and Eats a $15.8 Billion Loss

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Less than a year after Honda reinvented the Acura RSX as an electric crossover, the car is dead. So are the Honda 0 SUV and…

Can a Nissan LEAF Crack Tokyo’s Robotaxi Market?

Can a Nissan LEAF Crack Tokyo’s Robotaxi Market?

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

A Nissan LEAF — the aging EV that launched a thousand punchlines about range anxiety — is about to get a second life as a…

BMW’s CEO Says the 7 Series “Facelift” Is Basically a New Car

BMW’s CEO Says the 7 Series “Facelift” Is Basically a New Car

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Oliver Zipse stood on stage at BMW’s annual conference and said something CEOs almost never say about a mid-cycle refresh. He called the upcoming 2027…

VW’s ID.3 Neo Is a Band-Aid Before the Real Fix Arrives

VW’s ID.3 Neo Is a Band-Aid Before the Real Fix Arrives

Wheel Front Team Mar 12, 2026

Volkswagen just dropped teaser images of the ID.3 Neo, a heavily facelifted electric hatchback due in mid-April 2026 that replaces the current ID.3. The name…

Mercedes-Benz Gave Away 20 Electric Vans. Here’s What the Numbers Say.

Mercedes-Benz Gave Away 20 Electric Vans. Here’s What the Numbers Say.

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

More than 43,000 car seats, helmets, and reflective gear kits handed out to families. Nearly 88,000 families touched across the country. Almost 5,000 volunteer hours…

Honda’s Ohio Plants Nail 20 Straight Years of EPA Energy Star Awards

Honda’s Ohio Plants Nail 20 Straight Years of EPA Energy Star Awards

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

Twenty consecutive years. That’s how long Honda’s Marysville and East Liberty auto plants in Ohio have earned EPA ENERGY STAR certification, every single year since…