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Lotus Dumps Toyota V6 for an Engine Nobody Expected

Lotus Dumps Toyota V6 for an Engine Nobody Expected

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

The next Lotus Emira won’t have a Toyota V6 under its skin. It won’t have a Mercedes-AMG four-cylinder, either. Instead, the Cayman-rival will reportedly run a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 built by Horse Powertrain, the Geely-Renault joint venture most people associate…

Ford Sends Its V8 F-150 to Europe at $89,000 a Pop

Ford Sends Its V8 F-150 to Europe at $89,000 a Pop

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Ford has found a new frontier for its best-selling truck, and it’s across the Atlantic. The 2026 F-150 XLT is officially going on sale in…

Italdesign Bets $20 Million It Can Crack Detroit

Italdesign Bets $20 Million It Can Crack Detroit

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Italdesign just told Detroit’s Big Three it wants to be their new best friend. The legendary Italian design house, founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1968,…

The 457-HP Land Cruiser America Will Never Get

The 457-HP Land Cruiser America Will Never Get

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Toyota just gave the 300 Series Land Cruiser a hybrid powertrain pumping out 457 horsepower and 583 pound-feet of torque. Australia and other global markets…

He Shot at a Family of Four Over a Brake Check

He Shot at a Family of Four Over a Brake Check

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Nicolas Totherow told deputies he had no remorse. He admitted he intended to kill the driver. His reason: the SUV cut him off and brake-checked…

Ferrari’s HC25 Sneaks a Pure V8 Past the Hybrid Era

Ferrari’s HC25 Sneaks a Pure V8 Past the Hybrid Era

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Ferrari quietly built a car that isn’t supposed to exist anymore. The HC25, a one-off commission revealed this week, resurrects the company’s non-hybrid twin-turbo V8…

BMW ALPINA Returns at $200K to Poach Bentley Buyers

BMW ALPINA Returns at $200K to Poach Bentley Buyers

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

BMW hasn’t launched a new brand in over two decades. MINI arrived in 2001, Rolls-Royce in 2003, and then silence. That silence broke this spring…

Turquoise Is the New Red: Self-Driving Cars Get a Color

Turquoise Is the New Red: Self-Driving Cars Get a Color

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Mercedes-Benz picked turquoise. Not blue, not green, not white. Turquoise. That oddly specific choice, made years ago in a German engineering lab, is now becoming…

Ouster Wants One Sensor to Kill the Camera-Lidar Marriage

Ouster Wants One Sensor to Kill the Camera-Lidar Marriage

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Ouster just dropped a sensor that does what the autonomous vehicle industry has spent billions trying to duct-tape together. The company’s Rev8 lidar units capture…

Tesla’s Robotaxi Crashes Were Caused by Humans, Not AI

Tesla’s Robotaxi Crashes Were Caused by Humans, Not AI

Wheel Front Team May 16, 2026

Two low-speed crashes disclosed by Tesla to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration share an awkward common thread: neither was caused by the autonomous driving…