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Mercedes-Benz Wants to Cure Your Car Sickness With Wind and Light

Mercedes-Benz Wants to Cure Your Car Sickness With Wind and Light

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

Every automaker on the planet seems to have a patent for combating motion sickness. Most of them read like science fiction — active vibration cancellation, haptic feedback systems, complex sensor arrays. Mercedes-Benz, though, is taking a different route. Its recently…

Nearly Every Gas Station in New York City Is Selling You the Wrong Octane — and Getting Away With It

Nearly Every Gas Station in New York City Is Selling You the Wrong Octane — and Getting Away With It

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

If you’ve ever filled up in New York City and felt like something was off, you weren’t imagining things. A staggering 96 percent of gas…

U.S. Army Shoots Down Its Own Side’s Drone With Anti-Drone Laser Near El Paso, Triggering Four-Month Airspace Shutdown

U.S. Army Shoots Down Its Own Side’s Drone With Anti-Drone Laser Near El Paso, Triggering Four-Month Airspace Shutdown

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

You really cannot make this stuff up. Just weeks after the U.S. Army let Customs and Border Patrol borrow its high-energy laser weapon to blast…

Auto Start-Stop Won’t Kill Your Engine, and Here’s Why Automakers Have Already Thought of That

Auto Start-Stop Won’t Kill Your Engine, and Here’s Why Automakers Have Already Thought of That

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

Few features in modern cars generate as much disdain from drivers as auto start-stop. You pull up to a red light, the engine shuts off,…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Learned to Navigate Mars Without Calling Home

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Learned to Navigate Mars Without Calling Home

Wheel Front Team Feb 28, 2026

For five years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been doing something almost painfully relatable. Every time it got a little lost on Mars, it stopped driving,…

Brampton Plays Hardball with Stellantis, Rezoning Factory Land to Block Any Escape Route

Brampton Plays Hardball with Stellantis, Rezoning Factory Land to Block Any Escape Route

Wheel Front Team Feb 27, 2026

The city of Brampton, Ontario, just told Stellantis exactly where it can shove any ideas about selling off its idled assembly plant for condo development.…

Mitsubishi’s Next EV Is a Nissan Leaf in Disguise, and That’s Not a Bad Thing

Mitsubishi’s Next EV Is a Nissan Leaf in Disguise, and That’s Not a Bad Thing

Wheel Front Team Feb 27, 2026

Mitsubishi once had the audacity to launch the first mass-market electric vehicle you could actually walk into a dealership and buy. That was the i-MiEV…

Ford Finally Offers Discounts on the Mustang Dark Horse, But You’d Better Act Fast

Ford Finally Offers Discounts on the Mustang Dark Horse, But You’d Better Act Fast

Wheel Front Team Feb 27, 2026

The Ford Mustang Dark Horse has been the bruiser at the top of the pony car lineup since this generation launched, sitting just below the…

The 2026 Corvette ZR1X Is So Fast It Broke the NHRA’s Brain

The 2026 Corvette ZR1X Is So Fast It Broke the NHRA’s Brain

Wheel Front Team Feb 27, 2026

General Motors has never been known for restraint, and the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X is the most emphatic proof yet. It combines the ZR1’s 1,064-horsepower…

Volkswagen Delivers Its Two-Millionth Electric Car — And It’s Just Getting Started

Volkswagen Delivers Its Two-Millionth Electric Car — And It’s Just Getting Started

Wheel Front Team Feb 27, 2026

Volkswagen has delivered its two-millionth all-electric vehicle, marking a landmark moment in the German automaker’s ongoing shift toward battery-powered mobility. The milestone car was an…