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He Shot at a Family of Four Over a Brake Check

He Shot at a Family of Four Over a Brake Check

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Nicolas Totherow told deputies he had no remorse. He admitted he intended to kill the driver. His reason: the SUV cut him off and brake-checked him twice. That was enough, apparently, for Totherow to open fire on a family of…

Ferrari’s HC25 Sneaks a Pure V8 Past the Hybrid Era

Ferrari’s HC25 Sneaks a Pure V8 Past the Hybrid Era

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Ferrari quietly built a car that isn’t supposed to exist anymore. The HC25, a one-off commission revealed this week, resurrects the company’s non-hybrid twin-turbo V8…

BMW ALPINA Returns at $200K to Poach Bentley Buyers

BMW ALPINA Returns at $200K to Poach Bentley Buyers

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

BMW hasn’t launched a new brand in over two decades. MINI arrived in 2001, Rolls-Royce in 2003, and then silence. That silence broke this spring…

Turquoise Is the New Red: Self-Driving Cars Get a Color

Turquoise Is the New Red: Self-Driving Cars Get a Color

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Mercedes-Benz picked turquoise. Not blue, not green, not white. Turquoise. That oddly specific choice, made years ago in a German engineering lab, is now becoming…

Ouster Wants One Sensor to Kill the Camera-Lidar Marriage

Ouster Wants One Sensor to Kill the Camera-Lidar Marriage

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Ouster just dropped a sensor that does what the autonomous vehicle industry has spent billions trying to duct-tape together. The company’s Rev8 lidar units capture…

Tesla’s Robotaxi Crashes Were Caused by Humans, Not AI

Tesla’s Robotaxi Crashes Were Caused by Humans, Not AI

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Two low-speed crashes disclosed by Tesla to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration share an awkward common thread: neither was caused by the autonomous driving…

Tesla Hikes Model Y Prices as Robotaxis Hit Fences

Tesla Hikes Model Y Prices as Robotaxis Hit Fences

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Tesla bumped Model Y prices this week for the first time in two years, a move that looks like confidence on the surface. Dig a…

PennDOT’s Exam Fraud Forces 2,500 Drivers to Retest

PennDOT’s Exam Fraud Forces 2,500 Drivers to Retest

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

About 2,500 Pennsylvania drivers who earned their licenses between October 2024 and November 2025 have been told to come back and prove they can drive…

Mini’s Rocketman Won’t Die, But Can It Actually Live?

Mini’s Rocketman Won’t Die, But Can It Actually Live?

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Fifteen years is a long time to carry a torch for a concept car. Mini is still doing it anyway. In an interview with Auto…

Kimera’s 037 Reborn Packs a Koenigsegg V8 and 1,000 HP

Kimera’s 037 Reborn Packs a Koenigsegg V8 and 1,000 HP

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

The last two-wheel-drive car to win a World Rally Championship just got a 1,000-horsepower heart transplant from Sweden’s most uncompromising engine builder. That sentence alone…