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Toyota Hits $25B Profit, Still Expects a Decline

Toyota Hits $25B Profit, Still Expects a Decline

Wheel Front Team May 19, 2026

Toyota just became the first Japanese company to crack 50 trillion yen in operating revenue. Its reward? A forecast for a third straight year of profit decline. That tension sat at the center of Toyota’s fiscal year 2026 earnings briefing…

Stellantis Bets on a Tiny, Cheap EV to Save Its Soul

Stellantis Bets on a Tiny, Cheap EV to Save Its Soul

Wheel Front Team May 19, 2026

Stellantis just announced a small, affordable, fully electric car it’s calling the “E-Car,” with production slated for 2028 at its storied Pomigliano d’Arco plant in…

BMW Splits the 1 Series Into Two Completely Different Cars

BMW Splits the 1 Series Into Two Completely Different Cars

Wheel Front Team May 19, 2026

Nearly 200,000 BMW 1 Series hatchbacks found buyers last year. Not bad for a compact car that doesn’t even exist in North America. Now Munich…

Airbag Theft Is Booming and Your Steering Wheel Is Next

Airbag Theft Is Booming and Your Steering Wheel Is Next

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Around 50,000 airbags are stolen every year in the United States. That number, from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, puts airbag theft in the same…

Kimera’s K39: A Koenigsegg V8 in a 2,400-Pound Missile

Kimera’s K39: A Koenigsegg V8 in a 2,400-Pound Missile

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

A tiny Italian coachbuilder best known for reimagining 1980s Lancia rally cars just showed up at Villa d’Este with a clean-sheet hypercar packing a Koenigsegg…

BMW’s Last Manual M3: Rear-Drive, 473 HP, and $107K

BMW’s Last Manual M3: Rear-Drive, 473 HP, and $107K

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

The 2027 BMW M3 CS Handschalter exists. A 6-speed manual, rear-wheel-drive-only M3 CS with 473 horsepower, built from the ground up as its own car…

BMW’s Vision K18 Is a Six-Cylinder Fever Dream on Two Wheels

BMW’s Vision K18 Is a Six-Cylinder Fever Dream on Two Wheels

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

BMW Motorrad rolled out the Vision K18 at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este this weekend, and it looks less like a motorcycle concept and more…

Software Could Keep Your EV Battery Alive 23% Longer

Software Could Keep Your EV Battery Alive 23% Longer

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Frequent DC fast charging is slowly killing EV batteries, and everyone in the industry knows it. The question has always been whether software can outrun…

Subaru Trademarks ACX STI: Real Sports Car or Another SUV?

Subaru Trademarks ACX STI: Real Sports Car or Another SUV?

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Subaru has filed trademarks for both “ACX” and “ACX STI” in Australia, and the enthusiast internet is doing what it does best — building castles…

VW’s First Electric GTI Costs €39K and Makes 226 HP

VW’s First Electric GTI Costs €39K and Makes 226 HP

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Fifty years after the original Golf GTI rewrote the rules for affordable performance, Volkswagen just unveiled its successor — and it plugs in. The ID.…