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Audi’s March 17 Reckoning: A CEO, a Balance Sheet, and a Brutal Year

Audi’s March 17 Reckoning: A CEO, a Balance Sheet, and a Brutal Year

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

Audi has locked in March 17, 2026, for its Annual Media Conference, where CEO Gernot Döllner and CFO Jürgen Rittersberger will face the cameras from Ingolstadt and lay out the financial results for what was, by any measure, a bruising…

Porsche Plans a Supercar Above the 911 to Fight a 93% Profit Collapse

Porsche Plans a Supercar Above the 911 to Fight a 93% Profit Collapse

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

Operating profit at Porsche cratered from €5.64 billion in 2024 to just €0.41 billion in 2025. That’s not a dip. That’s a 93 percent collapse,…

Ford’s Explorer EV Gets Smarter in Europe While the U.S. Watches

Ford’s Explorer EV Gets Smarter in Europe While the U.S. Watches

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

Ford just handed its European Explorer EV a lithium-iron phosphate battery, bidirectional charging, and a suite of new driver-assistance tech. Meanwhile, back home in Dearborn,…

Ram Crawls Back to the Small Van Game It Helped Kill

Ram Crawls Back to the Small Van Game It Helped Kill

Wheel Front Team Mar 11, 2026

Three years after Ram walked away from the small commercial van segment, leaving tradespeople and delivery fleets scrambling, the brand wants back in. The 2027…

Subaru Turned 141,000 New-Car Deliveries Into a Charity Machine

Subaru Turned 141,000 New-Car Deliveries Into a Charity Machine

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Subaru of America says 141,184 customers redeemed social impact gifts in the first year of its Love-Encore gifting program, a post-purchase initiative that quietly became…

Honda’s NSX Heritage Parts Program Finally Hits U.S. Dealers

Honda’s NSX Heritage Parts Program Finally Hits U.S. Dealers

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Thirty-five years after the first Acura NSX rolled off the line, Honda is throwing its most iconic mid-engine car a lifeline. Starting this summer, reproduction…

Mercedes Bets Americans Will Pay Limo Money for a Minivan

Mercedes Bets Americans Will Pay Limo Money for a Minivan

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Mercedes-Benz just unveiled the VLE-Class, a fully electric passenger van it desperately wants you to call a “grand limousine.” It’s headed to North America in…

Audi’s Five-Cylinder Swan Song Costs Nearly Double the Standard RS3

Audi’s Five-Cylinder Swan Song Costs Nearly Double the Standard RS3

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Seven hundred and fifty cars. That’s how many RS3 Competition Limited editions Audi Sport will build to mark a half-century of five-cylinder engines — a…

Audi’s $120K RS3 Sendoff Is the Inline-Five’s Last Breath

Audi’s $120K RS3 Sendoff Is the Inline-Five’s Last Breath

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Seven hundred and fifty cars. That’s what Audi is building to mark 50 years of its beloved inline-five engine, and the price tag — north…

Audi’s Five-Cylinder Gets a Funeral Pyre — 750 RS 3s, Then It’s Over

Audi’s Five-Cylinder Gets a Funeral Pyre — 750 RS 3s, Then It’s Over

Wheel Front Team Mar 10, 2026

Only 750 will be built. Each one gets a serial number stamped into the center console. When they’re gone, so is the inline five-cylinder engine…