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Stellantis Bets $70B That One Platform Can Save It All

Stellantis Bets $70B That One Platform Can Save It All

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Stellantis just told investors it plans to collapse five vehicle platforms into one. The new architecture, called STLA One, was unveiled at the automaker’s Investor Day on May 21 at its North American headquarters in Michigan. If that sounds like…

Tesla’s Plaid Model 3 Dream Has No Car to Live In

Tesla’s Plaid Model 3 Dream Has No Car to Live In

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Lars Moravy thinks about a Plaid Model 3 “all the time.” That’s a fascinating admission from Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, especially since the…

BMW’s 7 Series Facelift Is a Total Reconstruction

BMW’s 7 Series Facelift Is a Total Reconstruction

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Over 500 paint colors. A matte-and-glossy finish on the same body panel. A 14.6-inch passenger screen that comes standard on every trim, including the base…

Mini’s Paul Smith Edition Is a $1,400 Style Play

Mini’s Paul Smith Edition Is a $1,400 Style Play

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Mini just unveiled the Cooper Paul Smith Edition, a collaboration with the legendary British fashion designer that dresses up the brand’s two-door, four-door, and convertible…

Range Rover’s $270K SV Ultra Bets on Invisible Speakers

Range Rover’s $270K SV Ultra Bets on Invisible Speakers

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Land Rover is pinning the identity of its most expensive Range Rover ever on something you hear and feel rather than something you see under…

Another EV Camper Startup Wants Your $80K and Your Faith

Another EV Camper Startup Wants Your $80K and Your Faith

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Aboard RV has one functional prototype, a few dozen employees, and $13 million in fresh funding. It wants you to believe it can reinvent the…

Volvo Just Got an Exemption From the Anti-China Car Rule

Volvo Just Got an Exemption From the Anti-China Car Rule

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

The Biden administration’s connected car rule was supposed to be a firewall against Chinese and Russian technology infiltrating American vehicles. Eight months later, the Trump…

BMW’s M350 Fills a Two-Year M3 Void With 400+ HP

BMW’s M350 Fills a Two-Year M3 Void With 400+ HP

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

The manual transmission is dead across the entire 3 Series lineup. That’s the quiet bombshell buried inside BMW’s plan to replace the M340i with the…

AMG’s Inline-6 GLC53 Apologizes for the 4-Cylinder Era

AMG’s Inline-6 GLC53 Apologizes for the 4-Cylinder Era

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Mercedes-AMG spent years trying to convince buyers that a turbocharged four-cylinder could replace the visceral punch of more cylinders. The market responded with skepticism, and…

Acura Eyes a Detroit Street Circuit Three-Peat

Acura Eyes a Detroit Street Circuit Three-Peat

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Nobody else has won a sports car race on Detroit’s downtown street circuit. Not once. Since IMSA moved off Belle Isle and onto the 1.7-mile…