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The Mustang Owns a Segment Its Rivals Abandoned

The Mustang Owns a Segment Its Rivals Abandoned

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

Ford sold 14,074 Mustangs in the first quarter of 2026, a 50.1% jump over the same period last year. In a market rattled by tariffs, fuel costs, and vanishing EV incentives, a V8-powered pony car is putting up numbers that…

51 New Leafs May Burn While Parked. Nissan Knows Which Ones.

51 New Leafs May Burn While Parked. Nissan Knows Which Ones.

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

A 2026 Nissan Leaf sitting outside a dealership in Osaka, Japan, caught fire on February 19. It wasn’t plugged in. It wasn’t turned on. It…

Colorado’s Speed Cameras Kill the Brake-and-Gun-It Trick

Colorado’s Speed Cameras Kill the Brake-and-Gun-It Trick

Wheel Front Team Apr 3, 2026

A quarter-million drivers have already been caught. Colorado’s expanding network of average-speed cameras tagged 262,000 motorists in Denver and along Interstate 25, and as of…

The Defender Octa Is a $195K Brick That Hits 60 in 4 Seconds

The Defender Octa Is a $195K Brick That Hits 60 in 4 Seconds

Wheel Front Team Apr 3, 2026

Land Rover built a 626-horsepower Defender and priced it at nearly $200,000. Two independent tests confirm the same unsettling conclusion: the thing actually works. The…

Nissan Xterra Returns With a V-6 and No Apologies

Nissan Xterra Returns With a V-6 and No Apologies

Wheel Front Team Apr 3, 2026

Nissan killed the Xterra in 2015 and spent a decade watching the off-road SUV market explode without it. Now the company is clawing its way…

Illinois Cops Drive Beaters While Kansas Found a Fix

Illinois Cops Drive Beaters While Kansas Found a Fix

Wheel Front Team Apr 3, 2026

A fully outfitted Illinois State Police cruiser costs $120,000. The fund earmarked to buy new ones brought in just $7 million last year. That buys…

Ford’s European Survival Plan Runs on Renault’s Platform

Ford’s European Survival Plan Runs on Renault’s Platform

Wheel Front Team Apr 3, 2026

Ford’s European market share has cratered to 2.8 percent. The Focus is dead. The Fiesta is dead. The Mondeo is dead. The company that once…

Handcuffed Woman Slips Out Cop Car Window, Runs Free

Handcuffed Woman Slips Out Cop Car Window, Runs Free

Wheel Front Team Apr 2, 2026

Kendra Aney, 38, shimmied through a half-open patrol car window while handcuffed in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, last Saturday, dropped to the pavement, and sprinted away…

Bentley’s First EV Won’t Be Sold as an EV

Bentley’s First EV Won’t Be Sold as an EV

Wheel Front Team Apr 2, 2026

Bentley just cliniced a smaller electric SUV with potential buyers in Miami and Los Angeles over the past six weeks. Eight out of ten said…

100 Baidu Robotaxis Freeze on Wuhan Streets, Trap Riders

100 Baidu Robotaxis Freeze on Wuhan Streets, Trap Riders

Wheel Front Team Apr 2, 2026

At least 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis stopped dead in the middle of Wuhan’s busy roads Tuesday night, stranding passengers and snarling traffic across the…