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Volvo Ditched Its Buttons and Even Fans Are Screaming

Volvo Ditched Its Buttons and Even Fans Are Screaming

Wheel Front Team May 19, 2026

Volvo, the brand that built its entire identity on keeping people alive inside a car, has now made it harder to keep your eyes on the road. That contradiction landed with full force this week when The Autopian’s Matt Hardigree…

625,000 Fans, Three Races, One Sunday Afternoon

625,000 Fans, Three Races, One Sunday Afternoon

Wheel Front Team May 19, 2026

Three major races, three sold-out venues, 625,000 bodies in seats or on their feet across the eastern half of North America. That’s the Memorial Day…

240 MPH Into a Corner: Indy Qualifying’s Brutal Beauty

240 MPH Into a Corner: Indy Qualifying’s Brutal Beauty

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Alex Palou’s pole-winning run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway hit 242 mph on the main straight and 240 entering Turn 1. That’s faster than an Airbus…

The Flagship Sedan Is Dead. Long Live the Flagship.

The Flagship Sedan Is Dead. Long Live the Flagship.

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Ask enthusiasts to name their favorite flagship vehicle and you get a fascinating autopsy of the luxury car business. Jalopnik posed exactly that question to…

The Car That Says You Peaked in High School

The Car That Says You Peaked in High School

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

Jeep just announced a Captain America-themed Wrangler tied to the America250 celebration, and the internet responded exactly the way you’d expect — by asking what…

A $753K Lambo Proved Kids Still Love Cars

A $753K Lambo Proved Kids Still Love Cars

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

The proportion of 16-year-olds with a driver’s license has been cut in half since 1983, dropping from nearly 50 percent to about 25 percent by…

This 14-Inch-Wider C6 ZR1 Is a Carbon Fiber Fever Dream

This 14-Inch-Wider C6 ZR1 Is a Carbon Fiber Fever Dream

Wheel Front Team May 18, 2026

A 2010 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 wearing a full carbon fiber widebody kit that adds 14 inches to its rear haunches is heading to Mecum’s Nashville…

Verstappen Rules the Ring at Nürburgring 24H Halfway

Verstappen Rules the Ring at Nürburgring 24H Halfway

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Max Verstappen sat four seconds clear of his own teammate with twelve hours still to run at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. The four-time Formula 1…

BMW’s Secret M3 Pickup Finally Surfaces After 40 Years

BMW’s Secret M3 Pickup Finally Surfaces After 40 Years

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

In 1986, someone at BMW’s M division took a perfectly good E30 M3 convertible and cut it into a pickup truck. Forty years later, that…

BMW’s Secret E46 M3 Touring Finally Gets Its Moment

BMW’s Secret E46 M3 Touring Finally Gets Its Moment

Wheel Front Team May 17, 2026

Twenty-five years after BMW built it and then buried it, the only E46 M3 Touring ever made is sitting in the Italian sun at the…