Automotive News

Detroit’s Q1 Bloodbath Hides a Few Surprising Winners

Detroit’s Q1 Bloodbath Hides a Few Surprising Winners

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

General Motors deliveries dropped 9.7 percent. Ford fell 8.8 percent. Stellantis watched its entire EV lineup crater by double digits. The first quarter of 2026 was ugly for Detroit, and the excuses — tariff-fueled buying binges a year ago, brutal…

Off-Lease EV Tsunami Could Cost Automakers $8 Billion

Off-Lease EV Tsunami Could Cost Automakers $8 Billion

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Three-year-old electric vehicles are retaining roughly 40 percent of their original value. In 2022, that number was 90 percent. The distance between those two figures…

Electric G-Wagen’s Wheels Can Fall Off: 3,734 Recalled

Electric G-Wagen’s Wheels Can Fall Off: 3,734 Recalled

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Mercedes-Benz built the electric G-Wagen to do tank turns, blast from zero to 60 in under four seconds, and conquer terrain that would break lesser…

Volvo’s Smallest EV Gets the Cross Country Treatment

Volvo’s Smallest EV Gets the Cross Country Treatment

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Volvo has pulled the predictable but shrewd move of giving its smallest electric vehicle the Cross Country treatment, rolling out the 2026 EX30 Cross Country…

Bentley’s First EV Enters Through the Back Door

Bentley’s First EV Enters Through the Back Door

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Bentley’s electric debut won’t arrive as a flagship. It’ll come in at the bottom of the lineup, positioned as an “urban SUV” priced at the…

Porsche’s Mystery 911: No Wing, Real Door Handles

Porsche’s Mystery 911: No Wing, Real Door Handles

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Porsche dropped a single teaser image on April 6 of a sheeted car and a countdown clock ticking toward April 14. The accompanying press release…

Honda’s CEO Saw China’s Factories. He Came Back Shaken.

Honda’s CEO Saw China’s Factories. He Came Back Shaken.

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Toshihiro Mibe walked through an auto supplier factory in Shanghai and came back to Japan with five words that should rattle every boardroom in Detroit,…

Toyota’s Quiet Bet on Japan’s Factory Floor

Toyota’s Quiet Bet on Japan’s Factory Floor

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Toyota Motor Corporation is putting money behind a second investment fund aimed at preserving and modernizing Japan’s manufacturing base. It’s a quiet but telling move…

3,300 C8 Corvettes Grounded by an Invisible Bug

3,300 C8 Corvettes Grounded by an Invisible Bug

Wheel Front Team Apr 5, 2026

General Motors just froze sales of roughly 3,300 C8 Corvettes over a piece of software that does one job — tell you when your rear…

The Hidden $5,000 Tax on Every New Car You Buy

The Hidden $5,000 Tax on Every New Car You Buy

Wheel Front Team Apr 5, 2026

Nearly five grand. That’s what the franchised dealership model is costing you on every new car purchase, according to a study from the International Center…