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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 Korean luxury brand, barely a decade old as a standalone marque, put its GMR-001 LMDh…

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…

Genesis Built a 160-HP Doorless Buggy for Le Mans

Genesis Built a 160-HP Doorless Buggy for Le Mans

Wheel Front Team Jun 16, 2026

Genesis showed up to the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans with a hypercar, a GT3 concept, a refined supercar, and — for reasons not…

TV’s Vampire Lestat Drives a Camaro and Fans Are Livid

TV’s Vampire Lestat Drives a Camaro and Fans Are Livid

Wheel Front Team Jun 16, 2026

AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Lestat” has committed what might be the most baffling piece of automotive casting in recent television memory. The…

Why These 1996 Cars Deserve to Still Be on Sale

Why These 1996 Cars Deserve to Still Be on Sale

Wheel Front Team Jun 16, 2026

The Chevrolet Express van has been on sale, virtually unchanged, for thirty years. That fact alone should embarrass every automaker that killed a perfectly good…

JMF’s Slick Tire Gamble in the Rain Wins Road Atlanta

JMF’s Slick Tire Gamble in the Rain Wins Road Atlanta

Wheel Front Team Jun 16, 2026

Philip Ellis flew to his own engagement party in St. Louis on Friday night, caught a few hours of sleep in a hotel near Michelin…

Acura Sends a Hit Man to Kill Its Own Pikes Peak Record

Acura Sends a Hit Man to Kill Its Own Pikes Peak Record

Wheel Front Team Jun 15, 2026

Nick Robinson’s 10:48.094 run up Pikes Peak in a 500-hp Acura TLX has survived seven years of challengers. Weather, track conditions, and sheer altitude have…

Toyota Claws Back From Nowhere to Win Le Mans

Toyota Claws Back From Nowhere to Win Le Mans

Wheel Front Team Jun 15, 2026

A crowd of 350,105 watched Toyota claw its way from the back of the Hypercar pack to win the 94th Le Mans 24 Hours by…

A Viper V-10 in a ’79 Cherokee Is Peak Restomod

A Viper V-10 in a ’79 Cherokee Is Peak Restomod

Wheel Front Team Jun 15, 2026

An 825-horsepower Dodge Viper V-10 shoehorned into a 1979 Jeep Cherokee two-door is currently sitting on Bring a Trailer, and the bidding war ends June…