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Volvo Just Got an Exemption From the Anti-China Car Rule

Volvo Just Got an Exemption From the Anti-China Car Rule

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

The Biden administration’s connected car rule was supposed to be a firewall against Chinese and Russian technology infiltrating American vehicles. Eight months later, the Trump Commerce Department just punched a hole in it for Volvo — a company owned by…

BMW’s M350 Fills a Two-Year M3 Void With 400+ HP

BMW’s M350 Fills a Two-Year M3 Void With 400+ HP

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

The manual transmission is dead across the entire 3 Series lineup. That’s the quiet bombshell buried inside BMW’s plan to replace the M340i with the…

AMG’s Inline-6 GLC53 Apologizes for the 4-Cylinder Era

AMG’s Inline-6 GLC53 Apologizes for the 4-Cylinder Era

Wheel Front Team May 27, 2026

Mercedes-AMG spent years trying to convince buyers that a turbocharged four-cylinder could replace the visceral punch of more cylinders. The market responded with skepticism, and…

Acura Eyes a Detroit Street Circuit Three-Peat

Acura Eyes a Detroit Street Circuit Three-Peat

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Nobody else has won a sports car race on Detroit’s downtown street circuit. Not once. Since IMSA moved off Belle Isle and onto the 1.7-mile…

Audi’s CEO Just Declared War on V8 Extinction

Audi’s CEO Just Declared War on V8 Extinction

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Gernot Dollner doesn’t hedge like most automotive executives. Sitting at a media roundtable in Austria ahead of the 2027 RS5 launch, the Audi CEO told…

Ford’s Truck Throne Is Under Siege

Ford’s Truck Throne Is Under Siege

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Ford sold 159,901 F-Series pickups in the first quarter of 2026, a 16 percent decline from a year ago. The company is still number one.…

Honda Bets Its Future on Hybrids, Not Hype

Honda Bets Its Future on Hybrids, Not Hype

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Four hundred thousand electrified vehicles sold in America last year, and not one of them needed a Supercharger. Honda just dropped a brand campaign called…

Ferrari’s Manual V12 Return Is a Rich Man’s Privilege

Ferrari’s Manual V12 Return Is a Rich Man’s Privilege

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Ferrari hasn’t offered a manual transmission in a flagship V12 since 2007. That drought may end as soon as July, when the automaker is expected…

Tesla’s Roadster Slips Again as Ferrari’s EV Debut Tanks

Tesla’s Roadster Slips Again as Ferrari’s EV Debut Tanks

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

The Tesla Roadster will be built at Gigafactory Texas. That’s the news Lars Moravy, Tesla’s VP of Vehicle Engineering, dropped on the Ride the Lightning…

Audi’s CEO Can’t Stop Smiling About a New R8

Audi’s CEO Can’t Stop Smiling About a New R8

Wheel Front Team May 26, 2026

Audi CEO Gernot Dollner knows the Lamborghini Temerario’s redline by heart. That’s not a normal thing for a chief executive to have memorized — unless…