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Tesla Semi Finally Hits the Production Line

Tesla Semi Finally Hits the Production Line

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

Nine years after Elon Musk first pulled a sheet off the Tesla Semi prototype, the first truck has rolled off what the company calls a high-volume production line in Nevada. Tesla announced the milestone Wednesday with a characteristically terse post…

GM’s Blazer EV Ditches CCS, Surrendering to Tesla

GM’s Blazer EV Ditches CCS, Surrendering to Tesla

Wheel Front Team Apr 30, 2026

The 2027 Chevrolet Blazer EV will come standard with a Tesla-developed NACS charging port, GM confirmed this week. It marks another domino falling in what…

Porsche’s GT3 Flat-Six May Go Turbo — But Only in Europe

Porsche’s GT3 Flat-Six May Go Turbo — But Only in Europe

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

“It might be.” Two words from Andreas Preuninger, the man who has shaped every modern Porsche GT car, and suddenly the most sacred naturally aspirated…

China Hits the Brakes on All Self-Driving Permits

China Hits the Brakes on All Self-Driving Permits

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Dozens of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped dead in the streets of Wuhan in March, stranding passengers and snarling traffic across one of China’s largest…

German Automakers Admit China Dominance Is Over

German Automakers Admit China Dominance Is Over

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Hildegard Mueller, president of Germany’s VDA auto lobby, stood in front of reporters at the Beijing auto show on Saturday and said something her predecessors…

Automakers Burned Billions on EVs. Now Comes the Reckoning.

Automakers Burned Billions on EVs. Now Comes the Reckoning.

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Honda just posted its first-ever loss. Stellantis is restarting V8 production. Ford killed its electric family haulers. Nissan is pivoting back to gas-powered body-on-frame SUVs.…

VW’s ID. Polo Nails the Brief America Will Never Get

VW’s ID. Polo Nails the Brief America Will Never Get

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Volkswagen just revealed the production ID. Polo, and it lands like a rebuke to every automaker that insists affordable EVs are impossible. A 54-kWh battery…

BMW’s 7 Series Overhaul Hides a Power War Under New Screens

BMW’s 7 Series Overhaul Hides a Power War Under New Screens

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

The 2027 BMW M760e now produces 603 horsepower. That’s a 40-horse jump from the outgoing model, enough to drop the zero-to-62-mph sprint to 4.2 seconds…

VW’s €25K Electric ID. Polo Targets Europe’s Heart

VW’s €25K Electric ID. Polo Targets Europe’s Heart

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Volkswagen just put a price on the electric revolution’s next front: 24,995 euros. That’s the starting tag for the new ID. Polo, unveiled today in…

Mao’s Favorite Car Brand Eyes a Stellantis Factory in Spain

Mao’s Favorite Car Brand Eyes a Stellantis Factory in Spain

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

A Chinese luxury automaker once reserved for Communist Party elites is negotiating to build cars inside a Stellantis plant in Spain, according to five sources…