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F1 Fans Want Tracks With Soul, Not Parking Lots

F1 Fans Want Tracks With Soul, Not Parking Lots

Wheel Front Team Jun 9, 2026

Formula 1 fans are tired of racing in parking lots and parking garages dressed up as Grand Prix venues. When Jalopnik asked readers which tracks should return to the F1 calendar, the answers landed like a collective indictment of the…

Toyoda Waved Nissan Flags and Nobody Got the Real Play

Toyoda Waved Nissan Flags and Nobody Got the Real Play

Wheel Front Team Jun 9, 2026

Akio Toyoda stood at Fuji Speedway last weekend, waving two Nissan flags with a Murano parked behind him, grinning like a man who knows exactly…

The Last Lincoln From Mexico’s Deadliest Race Hits the Block

The Last Lincoln From Mexico’s Deadliest Race Hits the Block

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

Five Lincolns entered the final running of La Carrera Panamericana in 1954. One won. Four disappeared. The sole survivor crosses the Bonhams auction block this…

Nissan’s Frontier Is the Last V6 Truck Standing

Nissan’s Frontier Is the Last V6 Truck Standing

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

The Chevrolet Colorado runs a turbo-four. The Ford Ranger runs a turbo-four. The Toyota Tacoma, once a V6 stronghold, runs a turbo-four. In the 2026…

BMW Let 67 VIPs Flog 11,000-Pound Armored Cars in Czechia

BMW Let 67 VIPs Flog 11,000-Pound Armored Cars in Czechia

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

On May 14, at a sprawling test facility in Sokolov, Czech Republic, BMW handed the keys to some of its rarest production vehicles to 67…

The Design Elements Drivers Want Dead

The Design Elements Drivers Want Dead

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

Bentley ditched its quad headlights on the refreshed Flying Spur, and nobody rioted. That quiet acceptance sparked a bigger question among Jalopnik’s readership: which automakers…

A Pimp My Ride Taurus Just Landed in a Junkyard

A Pimp My Ride Taurus Just Landed in a Junkyard

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

A 1989 Ford Taurus customized for a 2005 episode of Pimp My Ride turned up last weekend in a Pick-Your-Part junkyard in Wilmington, California, its…

Herbert Schnitzer, BMW’s Pit Wall Patriarch, Dead at 85

Herbert Schnitzer, BMW’s Pit Wall Patriarch, Dead at 85

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

Herbert Schnitzer died on his 85th birthday. That detail alone tells you something about the man’s timing — he spent five decades on a pit…

Corvette Sends Four Cars to Le Mans With Everything at Stake

Corvette Sends Four Cars to Le Mans With Everything at Stake

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

Four Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs will line up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 13-14, the largest contingent of Corvettes at the…

Koenigsegg’s Megacar Hits Auction at $10 Million

Koenigsegg’s Megacar Hits Auction at $10 Million

Wheel Front Team Jun 8, 2026

Only six Koenigsegg One:1s were ever sold to private customers. On July 4, 2026, one of them crosses the block at RM Sotheby’s Tegernsee auction…