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Ford’s Nugget Camper Van Hits 40 With No U.S. Visa

Ford’s Nugget Camper Van Hits 40 With No U.S. Visa

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

In 1986, Ford and Westfalia bolted a kitchen and a pop-top roof onto a Transit and called it the Nugget. Forty years later, it’s a cult object across Europe and still completely invisible to American buyers. The anniversary is worth…

Mazda’s Le Mans Rotary Still Screams 34 Years Later

Mazda’s Le Mans Rotary Still Screams 34 Years Later

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Thirty-four years after a four-rotor Mazda 787B crossed the finish line at Le Mans and rewrote the record books, a small team of Mazda Heritage…

Acura Turns 40 With a Time Capsule and a Sneaky Focus Group

Acura Turns 40 With a Time Capsule and a Sneaky Focus Group

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Eurythmics pumping through tinny speakers, cathode-ray tubes flickering with grainy car ads, and a pristine 1986 Legend sedan gleaming under showroom lights. That was the…

The Cult-Classic GM Truck Wheel Returns in Forged Form

The Cult-Classic GM Truck Wheel Returns in Forged Form

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Three grand for a set of wheels that mimic a factory option from two decades ago sounds like a tough sell. But if you owned…

The Pope Drove a Stick-Shift Fusion. Ford Lost $4K Each.

The Pope Drove a Stick-Shift Fusion. Ford Lost $4K Each.

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Ford CEO Jim Farley recently let slip on the podcast Spike’s Car Radio that Pope Leo XIV — born Robert Francis Prevost, raised in suburban…

Toyota’s 50th WEC Win Hides a Deeper Power Play

Toyota’s 50th WEC Win Hides a Deeper Power Play

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Fifty wins in one hundred starts. That is not a statistic you stumble into. That is a machine built for dominance, and on Sunday at…

A $2,000 Chinese Diesel V-Twin in a Go-Kart Is Chaos

A $2,000 Chinese Diesel V-Twin in a Go-Kart Is Chaos

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Two grand on AliExpress gets you a 1,300cc V-twin diesel engine that weighs 244 pounds, makes 26.8 horsepower, and arrives months late in a crate…

Death Shadows Verstappen’s Nürburgring NLS Weekend

Death Shadows Verstappen’s Nürburgring NLS Weekend

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Juha Miettinen, a 66-year-old BMW privateer defending a class win from just the week before, died Saturday at the Nürburgring Medical Center after a seven-car…

Kvapil’s Violent Kansas Flip Sparks Familiar Questions

Kvapil’s Violent Kansas Flip Sparks Familiar Questions

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Carson Kvapil was leading the Kansas Lottery 300 on Saturday evening. Two laps later, his No. 1 JR Motorsports car was barrel-rolling down the backstretch…

Acura Nails Long Beach Pole as IMSA Future Hangs in Doubt

Acura Nails Long Beach Pole as IMSA Future Hangs in Doubt

Wheel Front Team Apr 18, 2026

Nick Yelloly’s 1:11.626-second lap around the streets of Long Beach was the fastest of anyone’s qualifying session on Friday. It was precise, committed, and just…