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Audi’s Leadership Shuffle Reveals Its Real Power Centers

Audi’s Leadership Shuffle Reveals Its Real Power Centers

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Fermín Soneira is leaving Shanghai for Sant’Agata Bolognese. Fred Schulze is leaving Neckarsulm for Shanghai. Thomas Bogus, the man who oversaw the shuttering of Audi Brussels, is picking up the keys to Neckarsulm. Three moves, effective July 1, and every…

The Indy 500 Pace Car Could Now Keep Up With the Field

The Indy 500 Pace Car Could Now Keep Up With the Field

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

A 1,250-horsepower hybrid Corvette will lead 33 IndyCars to the green flag on May 24. For the first time in the race’s 110-year history, the…

Hyundai’s 15-Year ICCU Warranty May Not Be Enough

Hyundai’s 15-Year ICCU Warranty May Not Be Enough

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Hyundai just stretched warranty coverage on the Integrated Charging Control Unit to 15 years or 180,000 miles for certain U.S. electric vehicles. That’s a 50…

Connecticut Tow Companies Are Ignoring the Law

Connecticut Tow Companies Are Ignoring the Law

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Elias Natal came home from work one December evening to find his Buick gone. Towed from his apartment complex in New Haven, Connecticut, for allegedly…

BMW’s Double Play: Record EV Orders and $300M on AI

BMW’s Double Play: Record EV Orders and $300M on AI

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

More than half of all BMW X3 orders in Europe are now fully electric. That single data point, buried in BMW Group’s first-quarter results, tells…

Stellantis Is Profitable Again, But Barely

Stellantis Is Profitable Again, But Barely

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Stellantis posted a net profit of €377 million in the first quarter of 2026, clawing back from a €387 million loss in the same period…

Can a New Skyline Save What’s Left of Infiniti?

Can a New Skyline Save What’s Left of Infiniti?

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa stood inside the company’s Yokohama headquarters earlier this month and did something the brand hasn’t done convincingly in over a decade:…

Tesla Semi Finally Hits the Production Line

Tesla Semi Finally Hits the Production Line

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Nine years after Elon Musk first pulled a sheet off the Tesla Semi prototype, the first truck has rolled off what the company calls a…

GM’s Blazer EV Ditches CCS, Surrendering to Tesla

GM’s Blazer EV Ditches CCS, Surrendering to Tesla

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

The 2027 Chevrolet Blazer EV will come standard with a Tesla-developed NACS charging port, GM confirmed this week. It marks another domino falling in what…

Porsche’s GT3 Flat-Six May Go Turbo — But Only in Europe

Porsche’s GT3 Flat-Six May Go Turbo — But Only in Europe

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

“It might be.” Two words from Andreas Preuninger, the man who has shaped every modern Porsche GT car, and suddenly the most sacred naturally aspirated…