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Brazil’s Court Orders Rescue of Ford’s Lost Amazon Town

Brazil’s Court Orders Rescue of Ford’s Lost Amazon Town

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

A Brazilian court has ordered local and federal governments to restore Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s doomed rubber plantation town carved out of the Amazon jungle nearly a century ago. The ruling caps a 30-year preservation fight and a decade-old lawsuit, and…

Nobody Actually Wants a Zero-Percent Computer Car

Nobody Actually Wants a Zero-Percent Computer Car

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

A protest sign meme is making the rounds on social media. Different people, different photos, all digitally edited to hold signs reading “I want a…

Toyota Shoves Two Engines Into a Camry Just for Fun

Toyota Shoves Two Engines Into a Camry Just for Fun

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

A second engine in the trunk. A chandelier in the back seat. Exhaust pipes reaching for the sky like smokestacks on a river barge. This…

When 193 MPH Was Street Legal: The 1988 Test

When 193 MPH Was Street Legal: The 1988 Test

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

Reeves Callaway’s prototype Corvette hit 193 mph on a German autobahn in the fall of 1988. Street-legal. No roll cage. No parachute. Just a pair…

This 8,000-Mile 930 Turbo Has Had One Owner for 47 Years

This 8,000-Mile 930 Turbo Has Had One Owner for 47 Years

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

Somewhere in Alaska in 1979, a man walked into a Porsche dealership and bought not one but two 930 Turbos. One to drive. One to…

The $6,500 Cayenne Turbo S Is a Brutal Reality Check

The $6,500 Cayenne Turbo S Is a Brutal Reality Check

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

A 2006 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S — 520 horsepower, twin-turbo V8, originally stickered at $112,000 — is listed on Facebook Marketplace for $6,500. That’s the…

The Quiet Loss of Cutaway Art’s Greatest Hand

The Quiet Loss of Cutaway Art’s Greatest Hand

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

Jiro Yamada died last August at 65. The world didn’t find out until this week. That gap says something about the kind of man Yamada…

A $5.9M Drag Strip Revival Bucks the Trend of Dying Tracks

A $5.9M Drag Strip Revival Bucks the Trend of Dying Tracks

Wheel Front Team Jun 6, 2026

The first-ever NHRA Nationals were held there in 1955. By 2023, a routine track inspection shut the place down. Now, after a $5.9 million renovation,…

The Cars Readers Want Leading Pride Parades (No Subarus)

The Cars Readers Want Leading Pride Parades (No Subarus)

Wheel Front Team Jun 5, 2026

Forget the Outback. Forget the Crosstrek. Forget every Subaru stereotype that’s been welded to queer culture for the last three decades. Jalopnik asked readers a…

A Scout II Just Sold for $10. Yes, Ten Dollars.

A Scout II Just Sold for $10. Yes, Ten Dollars.

Wheel Front Team Jun 5, 2026

Ten bucks. That’s what a 1976 International Harvester Scout II, its original 345-cubic-inch V8, a four-speed manual transmission, and a refinished 1980 Scout II frame…