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Motor Oil Shortage Looms as Second Automaker Braces

Motor Oil Shortage Looms as Second Automaker Braces

Wheel Front Team May 15, 2026

Toyota was first. Now Nissan has drafted its own internal bulletin warning of severe motor oil supply constraints, confirming that this isn’t a single-brand hiccup but an industry-wide squeeze with real consequences for every car owner in America. The Nissan…

Stellantis Uses China’s Money to Build Its Next Global EVs

Stellantis Uses China’s Money to Build Its Next Global EVs

Wheel Front Team May 15, 2026

Stellantis and Dongfeng just agreed to pump over 8 billion yuan — roughly a billion euros — into their 34-year-old joint venture in Wuhan, with…

Toyota Wants a RAV4 Pickup to Take Down the Maverick

Toyota Wants a RAV4 Pickup to Take Down the Maverick

Wheel Front Team May 15, 2026

Ford sold 155,051 Mavericks in the United States last year. That number — up 18.2 percent from the prior year and more than double the…

Maserati May Hand Its Future EVs to Huawei

Maserati May Hand Its Future EVs to Huawei

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Maserati sold 1,000 cars in China last year. In 2017, it sold 14,498. That collapse, mirrored globally with total volume dropping 58 percent to just…

Europe Opens Factory Doors to China. BYD Says No Thanks.

Europe Opens Factory Doors to China. BYD Says No Thanks.

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Stellantis is handing over the keys to its Madrid factory. Ford is reportedly in talks with Geely. And across Europe, legacy automakers are lining up…

Honda’s First Loss Since 1957 Exposes an EV Bet Gone Wrong

Honda’s First Loss Since 1957 Exposes an EV Bet Gone Wrong

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Honda just posted its first annual operating loss since going public in 1957. Let that sink in for a moment. Nearly seven decades of unbroken…

BMW’s Facelifted M5 Howls Through the Ring, V8 Intact

BMW’s Facelifted M5 Howls Through the Ring, V8 Intact

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

The electric M3 isn’t the only M sedan pounding laps at the Nürburgring right now. BMW’s facelifted M5 has been caught on video circulating the…

Honda Bets Its Future on Hybrids After EV Meltdown

Honda Bets Its Future on Hybrids After EV Meltdown

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Honda just posted its first annual loss since going public in 1957. That’s not a typo. Sixty-eight years of unbroken profitability, gone. The company’s response,…

Honda’s Hybrid Blitz: 15 Models by 2030

Honda’s Hybrid Blitz: 15 Models by 2030

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Honda just showed its hand in Japan, and it’s not the all-electric future the industry has been breathlessly promising. During a global business briefing on…

Repo Men of the Sky Scrambled for Spirit’s Fleet

Repo Men of the Sky Scrambled for Spirit’s Fleet

Wheel Front Team May 14, 2026

Bob Allen had six hours to find 20 pilots. That was the window Nomadic Aviation Group’s co-founder gave himself after Spirit Airlines collapsed so fast…