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Kimera’s K39: A Koenigsegg V8 in a 2,400-Pound Missile

Kimera’s K39: A Koenigsegg V8 in a 2,400-Pound Missile

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

A tiny Italian coachbuilder best known for reimagining 1980s Lancia rally cars just showed up at Villa d’Este with a clean-sheet hypercar packing a Koenigsegg twin-turbo V8. That sentence alone should stop you cold. Kimera Automobili unveiled the K39 on…

BMW’s Last Manual M3: Rear-Drive, 473 HP, and $107K

BMW’s Last Manual M3: Rear-Drive, 473 HP, and $107K

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

The 2027 BMW M3 CS Handschalter exists. A 6-speed manual, rear-wheel-drive-only M3 CS with 473 horsepower, built from the ground up as its own car…

BMW’s Vision K18 Is a Six-Cylinder Fever Dream on Two Wheels

BMW’s Vision K18 Is a Six-Cylinder Fever Dream on Two Wheels

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

BMW Motorrad rolled out the Vision K18 at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este this weekend, and it looks less like a motorcycle concept and more…

Software Could Keep Your EV Battery Alive 23% Longer

Software Could Keep Your EV Battery Alive 23% Longer

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Frequent DC fast charging is slowly killing EV batteries, and everyone in the industry knows it. The question has always been whether software can outrun…

Subaru Trademarks ACX STI: Real Sports Car or Another SUV?

Subaru Trademarks ACX STI: Real Sports Car or Another SUV?

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Subaru has filed trademarks for both “ACX” and “ACX STI” in Australia, and the enthusiast internet is doing what it does best — building castles…

VW’s First Electric GTI Costs €39K and Makes 226 HP

VW’s First Electric GTI Costs €39K and Makes 226 HP

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Fifty years after the original Golf GTI rewrote the rules for affordable performance, Volkswagen just unveiled its successor — and it plugs in. The ID.…

Lotus Dumps Toyota V6 for an Engine Nobody Expected

Lotus Dumps Toyota V6 for an Engine Nobody Expected

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

The next Lotus Emira won’t have a Toyota V6 under its skin. It won’t have a Mercedes-AMG four-cylinder, either. Instead, the Cayman-rival will reportedly run…

Ford Sends Its V8 F-150 to Europe at $89,000 a Pop

Ford Sends Its V8 F-150 to Europe at $89,000 a Pop

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Ford has found a new frontier for its best-selling truck, and it’s across the Atlantic. The 2026 F-150 XLT is officially going on sale in…

Italdesign Bets $20 Million It Can Crack Detroit

Italdesign Bets $20 Million It Can Crack Detroit

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Italdesign just told Detroit’s Big Three it wants to be their new best friend. The legendary Italian design house, founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1968,…

The 457-HP Land Cruiser America Will Never Get

The 457-HP Land Cruiser America Will Never Get

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Toyota just gave the 300 Series Land Cruiser a hybrid powertrain pumping out 457 horsepower and 583 pound-feet of torque. Australia and other global markets…