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What 2008 Recession Cars Teach Us About Surviving 2026

What 2008 Recession Cars Teach Us About Surviving 2026

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Gas hit record highs, the housing market cratered, and millions of Americans watched their salaries evaporate. The 2008 recession forced a brutal reckoning with what people actually needed from their cars. Now, with AI bubble anxiety, ballooning car payments, and…

BMW’s 50-Year Helmet Journey Peaks With the System 8

BMW’s 50-Year Helmet Journey Peaks With the System 8

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Fifty years ago, BMW slapped its badge on a glass-fibre lid made by Römer that weighed 1,400 grams and called it progress. It was. In…

Acura’s Long Beach Win Faces Its Real Test at Laguna Seca

Acura’s Long Beach Win Faces Its Real Test at Laguna Seca

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Acura’s first victory at its own branded street race took seven years. Now the question is whether that Long Beach breakthrough was a turning point…

24 Hours of Lemons Turns 20 With Typewriters and V8s

24 Hours of Lemons Turns 20 With Typewriters and V8s

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Ninety-six teams showed up at Carolina Motorsports Park last weekend to celebrate something no sane person predicted would last: the 24 Hours of Lemons just…

A $50K M3 Lime Rock Park Edition Hides an Orange Secret

A $50K M3 Lime Rock Park Edition Hides an Orange Secret

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

A 2013 BMW M3 Lime Rock Park Edition just sold on Bring a Trailer for $50,500. For one of 200 ever made, that’s cheap. Suspiciously…

Engel’s Undercut Masterclass Steals DTM Win at Red Bull Ring

Engel’s Undercut Masterclass Steals DTM Win at Red Bull Ring

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Maro Engel started fifth. He finished first. The way he got there was a clinic in how to weaponize pit strategy on a short Austrian…

BMW Wins LMGT3 at Imola, Then Sets Sights Higher

BMW Wins LMGT3 at Imola, Then Sets Sights Higher

Wheel Front Team Apr 29, 2026

Three drivers who had never raced together in the FIA World Endurance Championship climbed out of a BMW M4 GT3 EVO at Imola with a…

When Car Gauges Were Art, Not Just Screens

When Car Gauges Were Art, Not Just Screens

Wheel Front Team Apr 28, 2026

Chrysler was putting electroluminescent instrument panels in its cars by 1960, decades before Timex slapped “Indiglo” on a watch face and made the technology a…

Cadillac’s Monochrome Flex at Its First F1 Home Race

Cadillac’s Monochrome Flex at Its First F1 Home Race

Wheel Front Team Apr 28, 2026

Cadillac will roll onto the Miami Grand Prix grid this weekend wearing a stripped-down, black-and-white livery built around a Stars and Stripes motif. It’s a…

Ford’s Electric Cobra Jet Runs 6.76 at 222 MPH

Ford’s Electric Cobra Jet Runs 6.76 at 222 MPH

Wheel Front Team Apr 28, 2026

A full second. That’s how much time Ford Racing shaved off its own electric quarter-mile record last weekend at NHRA Charlotte, where the Mustang Cobra…