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VW Won’t Slap GTI on Just Anything. Here’s Why.

VW Won’t Slap GTI on Just Anything. Here’s Why.

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

Volkswagen has sold GTI versions of the Lupo, Polo, Up, Gol, Parati, and Pointer across Europe and Latin America. Americans have never seen any of them. The Golf remains the lone GTI carrier stateside, and according to the man in…

Toyota’s WRC Dominance Meets Its Toughest Test Yet

Toyota’s WRC Dominance Meets Its Toughest Test Yet

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

Five Toyota drivers hold the top five spots in the 2026 WRC standings. All five will sweep the roads clean in Greece this week, running…

A Teenager Is Helping Develop Cadillac’s F1 Car

A Teenager Is Helping Develop Cadillac’s F1 Car

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

Aiden Price was 14 years old and sitting in class when his father’s boss called with a question that sounds like fiction: Could the kid…

The Jet Car That Changed Everything Just Vanished

The Jet Car That Changed Everything Just Vanished

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

The Flying Caduceus was supposed to sell this month for somewhere between $70,000 and $90,000. That’s less than a loaded pickup truck. Instead, the lot…

A Can of “Air” and a Cigarette Turned a Kia Soul Into a Bomb

A Can of “Air” and a Cigarette Turned a Kia Soul Into a Bomb

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

A red Kia Soul rolled past a gas station in Gamewell, North Carolina on the evening of June 12 and exploded. Not caught fire. Exploded.…

Audi’s F1 Logistics Gamble: Rear Wings in Carry-Ons

Audi’s F1 Logistics Gamble: Rear Wings in Carry-Ons

Wheel Front Team Jun 19, 2026

A supplementary shipment for Audi Revolut F1 Team’s debut race in Melbourne got stranded when global air traffic restrictions kicked in mid-route between Zurich and…

When BMW’s M5 Was a Four-Door Corvette

When BMW’s M5 Was a Four-Door Corvette

Wheel Front Team Jun 18, 2026

Car and Driver just resurfaced its February 1999 first drive of the 2000 BMW M5, written by the late Tony Swan, and reading it a…

Genesis Crashes Le Mans and Walks Away With Cred

Genesis Crashes Le Mans and Walks Away With Cred

Wheel Front Team Jun 18, 2026

Five hundred days. That’s all the time Genesis needed to go from announcing a racing program to finishing the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The…

Toyota’s Superconducting Hydrogen Racer Survives Fuji 24H

Toyota’s Superconducting Hydrogen Racer Survives Fuji 24H

Wheel Front Team Jun 18, 2026

A race car carrying a superconducting motor inside its liquid hydrogen tank just completed the Super Taikyu Fuji 24 Hours. Toyota says it’s the first…

GM’s Secret Baby Duramax V8 Survived—in Sweden

GM’s Secret Baby Duramax V8 Survived—in Sweden

Wheel Front Team Jun 17, 2026

General Motors swore it destroyed every prototype of the 4.5-liter turbodiesel V8 known internally as the LMK, the so-called Baby Duramax. At least one made…