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Honda Sends the Passport Back to Japan—Left-Hand Drive

Honda Sends the Passport Back to Japan—Left-Hand Drive

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

A left-hand-drive American SUV, built in Alabama, sold in a country that drives on the left side of the road. That’s the play Honda is making with the Passport TrailSport Elite, announcing plans to export the U.S.-built model to Japan…

Ohio-Built Acura Integra Type S Heads to Japan

Ohio-Built Acura Integra Type S Heads to Japan

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Forty years ago, Acura was created to sell Japanese-engineered cars to Americans. Now Honda is flipping the script, shipping an Ohio-built Integra Type S back…

Scout’s Gas Engine Gamble: 87% Want the EREV

Scout’s Gas Engine Gamble: 87% Want the EREV

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Scout Motors has 160,000 reservation holders. Nearly nine out of ten want the version with a gas engine. That single data point, dropped by CEO…

One Acura, $8,660 in Tickets, and a City That Can’t Tow

One Acura, $8,660 in Tickets, and a City That Can’t Tow

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

An abandoned Acura MDX sat on Locust Street in St. Louis for nearly a year and racked up $8,660 in parking tickets. That’s roughly twice…

Subaru’s STI Revival Is Getting Harder to Deny

Subaru’s STI Revival Is Getting Harder to Deny

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Subaru of Australia General Manager Scott Lawrence just said the quiet part out loud. “There has been a significant volume of feedback” about a new…

Akio Toyoda Fears Toyota Is Becoming Ordinary Again

Akio Toyoda Fears Toyota Is Becoming Ordinary Again

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Akio Toyoda hasn’t been invited to Toyota’s entrance ceremony. Nobody asked him to attend the New Year’s address either. The chairman of the world’s largest…

Toyota Swaps Presidents Again — Kon In, Sato Out

Toyota Swaps Presidents Again — Kon In, Sato Out

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Koji Sato is out as Toyota’s president and representative director. Kenta Kon, currently the company’s chief financial officer, will take the top job following the…

Ford’s Farley Pitches Chinese Cars on U.S. Soil

Ford’s Farley Pitches Chinese Cars on U.S. Soil

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Ford CEO Jim Farley has been quietly lobbying senior Trump administration officials on a framework that would let Chinese automakers build vehicles in America —…

VW’s Golf 9 Plays It Safe Against Radical Change

VW’s Golf 9 Plays It Safe Against Radical Change

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Volkswagen just showed its workforce in Wolfsburg the first silhouette of the next-generation Golf, and the message couldn’t be louder: the revolution is over, and…

BMW’s Electric 3 Series Arrives March 18. Finally.

BMW’s Electric 3 Series Arrives March 18. Finally.

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

BMW dropped a teaser this week for the Neue Klasse i3 sedan, confirming a March 18 debut date for what may be the most consequential…