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Ford Recalls 605,000 SUVs Over Wipers That Just Stop

Ford Recalls 605,000 SUVs Over Wipers That Just Stop

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Ford is pulling back nearly 605,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the windshield wiper motors can fail without warning, leaving drivers staring through rain, snow, or road spray with no way to clear it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…

BYD’s New Blade Battery Is a Desperate Bid for Survival

BYD’s New Blade Battery Is a Desperate Bid for Survival

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Six years between major battery upgrades is an eternity in China’s EV market. BYD finally broke that silence on Thursday, unveiling a second-generation Blade Battery…

Ford’s “Bounty Culture” Gambles Big on a $30K Truck

Ford’s “Bounty Culture” Gambles Big on a $30K Truck

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Ford CEO Jim Farley stood on Threads last month and declared the company isn’t retreating from electric vehicles — it’s “democratizing them.” Bold words from…

Honda Sends the Passport Back to Japan—Left-Hand Drive

Honda Sends the Passport Back to Japan—Left-Hand Drive

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

A left-hand-drive American SUV, built in Alabama, sold in a country that drives on the left side of the road. That’s the play Honda is…

Ohio-Built Acura Integra Type S Heads to Japan

Ohio-Built Acura Integra Type S Heads to Japan

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Forty years ago, Acura was created to sell Japanese-engineered cars to Americans. Now Honda is flipping the script, shipping an Ohio-built Integra Type S back…

Scout’s Gas Engine Gamble: 87% Want the EREV

Scout’s Gas Engine Gamble: 87% Want the EREV

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Scout Motors has 160,000 reservation holders. Nearly nine out of ten want the version with a gas engine. That single data point, dropped by CEO…

One Acura, $8,660 in Tickets, and a City That Can’t Tow

One Acura, $8,660 in Tickets, and a City That Can’t Tow

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

An abandoned Acura MDX sat on Locust Street in St. Louis for nearly a year and racked up $8,660 in parking tickets. That’s roughly twice…

Subaru’s STI Revival Is Getting Harder to Deny

Subaru’s STI Revival Is Getting Harder to Deny

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Subaru of Australia General Manager Scott Lawrence just said the quiet part out loud. “There has been a significant volume of feedback” about a new…

Akio Toyoda Fears Toyota Is Becoming Ordinary Again

Akio Toyoda Fears Toyota Is Becoming Ordinary Again

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Akio Toyoda hasn’t been invited to Toyota’s entrance ceremony. Nobody asked him to attend the New Year’s address either. The chairman of the world’s largest…

Toyota Swaps Presidents Again — Kon In, Sato Out

Toyota Swaps Presidents Again — Kon In, Sato Out

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Koji Sato is out as Toyota’s president and representative director. Kenta Kon, currently the company’s chief financial officer, will take the top job following the…