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AMG’s 1000-HP Electric SUV Is Almost Here

AMG’s 1000-HP Electric SUV Is Almost Here

Wheel Front Team Aug 10, 2026

Mercedes-AMG just dropped a series of teaser images showing a fully electric SUV draped in a black shroud, and the few details peeking through tell a familiar story. The headlights form three-pointed stars. The grille pushes forward aggressively from the…

Tesla’s $10B Solar Megafactory Deepens Its Texas Grip

Tesla’s $10B Solar Megafactory Deepens Its Texas Grip

Wheel Front Team Aug 10, 2026

Tesla quietly filed paperwork on July 22 for a $10.1 billion solar cell factory in Fort Bend County, Texas, under the internal codename “Project Crystal…

AMG Crawls Back to the V8 BMW Never Abandoned

AMG Crawls Back to the V8 BMW Never Abandoned

Wheel Front Team Aug 9, 2026

Mercedes-AMG CEO Michael Scheibe confirmed new V8 models will hit showrooms before the end of 2026, starting with SUVs and expanding to the CLE 63…

BMW 3 Series Hits 2 Million in China. BMW Is Still Losing.

BMW 3 Series Hits 2 Million in China. BMW Is Still Losing.

Wheel Front Team Aug 8, 2026

Two million 3 Series sedans sold in China. Twenty-one consecutive months leading the premium midsize sedan segment. On paper, BMW’s most important nameplate is doing…

Boring Company’s Tunnel Truck Runs on Tesla Guts

Boring Company’s Tunnel Truck Runs on Tesla Guts

Wheel Front Team Aug 8, 2026

The Boring Company just rolled out Liner Truck 3, an autonomous vehicle built from Tesla Model 3 battery packs and drive units, designed to haul…

VW Bets a Pickup Truck Can Fix Its American Problem

VW Bets a Pickup Truck Can Fix Its American Problem

Wheel Front Team Aug 7, 2026

Volkswagen has tried nearly everything to crack the U.S. market over the past two decades. Now it’s trying a pickup truck. A company source told…

Lucid Hits Reset With $1.4B Cash Overhaul

Lucid Hits Reset With $1.4B Cash Overhaul

Wheel Front Team Aug 7, 2026

Lucid Group produced 4,774 vehicles last quarter at a factory built to handle 90,000 a year. That single number tells you almost everything about where…

UK EV Sales Soar but Automakers Bleed Cash to Get There

UK EV Sales Soar but Automakers Bleed Cash to Get There

Wheel Front Team Aug 7, 2026

British new-car registrations jumped 11.7% in July, hitting 156,571 units and marking the market’s strongest performance for that month since 2019. Electric vehicles led the…

BMW’s Next iX1 Ditches Front-Wheel Drive Forever

BMW’s Next iX1 Ditches Front-Wheel Drive Forever

Wheel Front Team Aug 7, 2026

A prototype of the next-generation BMW iX1, codenamed NB5, has been spotted running hot-weather tests in Spain wearing the same swirly camouflage it’s carried since…

Audi A2 e-tron Arrives, Leaves BMW i1 Two Years Behind

Audi A2 e-tron Arrives, Leaves BMW i1 Two Years Behind

Wheel Front Team Aug 7, 2026

Audi just drew a line in the sand. The A2 e-tron arrives this fall with a preliminary WLTP consumption of 12.8 kWh per 100 km,…