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VW Tiguan Heated Seat Burned Her. Now It’s Going to Trial.

VW Tiguan Heated Seat Burned Her. Now It’s Going to Trial.

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

A 28-year-old woman who suffered second-degree burns from the heated seat in her 2023 Volkswagen Tiguan is getting her day in court. A federal judge in Tacoma has allowed the design defect claim to proceed to trial, even after dismissing…

Canada Built a Gate for China’s EVs. Tesla Walked In First.

Canada Built a Gate for China’s EVs. Tesla Walked In First.

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

Canada struck a deal to let 49,000 Chinese-built electric vehicles into the country each year at a bargain 6.1% tariff. Now the government is scrambling…

GM Recalls 40K Bottles of Brake Fluid Over Sediment Risk

GM Recalls 40K Bottles of Brake Fluid Over Sediment Risk

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

General Motors is recalling 40,440 bottles of ACDelco brake fluid that may contain visible sediment capable of reducing stopping power. The recall, filed with the…

BMW Kills the Z4 With No Plans to Build Another

BMW Kills the Z4 With No Plans to Build Another

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

The last BMW Z4 rolled off Magna Steyr’s assembly line in Graz, Austria this week, and the company isn’t even pretending a successor is coming.…

Tesla Semi Battery Specs Spill via California Regulators

Tesla Semi Battery Specs Spill via California Regulators

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

An 822-kilowatt-hour battery pack. That’s the confirmed capacity inside the Long Range Tesla Semi, according to a California Air Resources Board certification filing published in…

Mercedes Recalls 144,000 Cars Over Screens Going Dark

Mercedes Recalls 144,000 Cars Over Screens Going Dark

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

The instrument cluster in your Mercedes-Benz might go blank while you’re doing 75 on the highway. That’s the core of a recall covering 144,049 vehicles…

Bentley’s GT S Is a $300K Handling Bargain

Bentley’s GT S Is a $300K Handling Bargain

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

Bentley has found another gap in its Continental GT lineup to fill, and this time it costs around $300,000. The 2026 Continental GT S takes…

VW’s First Electric GTI Debuts at the Nürburgring

VW’s First Electric GTI Debuts at the Nürburgring

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

Fifty years after a scrappy hot hatch rewrote the rules of affordable performance, Volkswagen is betting that three red letters can survive the jump to…

Toyota’s AI Brain Will Power 100 Million Cars

Toyota’s AI Brain Will Power 100 Million Cars

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

Toyota just opened the doors to Woven City, its purpose-built mobility laboratory at the base of Mount Fuji, and the centerpiece wasn’t a new car.…

Pirelli’s Smart Tires Clear U.S. Security Review

Pirelli’s Smart Tires Clear U.S. Security Review

Wheel Front Team May 8, 2026

Pirelli is bringing its Cyber Tyre — the world’s first sensor-embedded connected tire system — to its Rome, Georgia plant, but the road there ran…