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A $100K Corolla? Tom’s Heritage AE86 Is Insanity Perfected

A $100K Corolla? Tom’s Heritage AE86 Is Insanity Perfected

Wheel Front Team Apr 8, 2026

A six-figure Toyota Corolla now exists, and it’s not a typo. Tom’s Racing, the legendary Japanese tuner born in 1975 and battle-tested from touring cars to Le Mans, is asking ¥16,500,000 — roughly $103,000 — to restore an AE86 Levin…

Honda’s Travel Trailer Gambit Reveals a Bigger Bet

Honda’s Travel Trailer Gambit Reveals a Bigger Bet

Wheel Front Team Apr 8, 2026

Honda just dropped two videos about its U.S. design operation, and buried inside the corporate polish is something genuinely unusual: a major automaker positioning a…

Jeep Found a Time Capsule XJ and Barely Touched It

Jeep Found a Time Capsule XJ and Barely Touched It

Wheel Front Team Apr 8, 2026

A one-owner 1986 Cherokee with 80,000 miles and a full service history turned up in Nevada, and it wrecked Jeep’s plans in the best possible…

How a Jeep Soft Top Shop Quietly Conquered Detroit

How a Jeep Soft Top Shop Quietly Conquered Detroit

Wheel Front Team Apr 7, 2026

Bestop has been sewing canvas roofs for Jeeps since 1954. Seventy-one years later, the company supplies factory soft tops for the Ford Bronco, built the…

This Flint Teacher Hands Screwdrivers to Kindergartners

This Flint Teacher Hands Screwdrivers to Kindergartners

Wheel Front Team Apr 7, 2026

Jerry Weston Jr. spends his days teaching high schoolers collision repair in Flint, Michigan. After hours, he’s handing screwdrivers to kindergartners. Weston runs an afterschool…

Toyota’s New Boss Starts Day One With 2,317 Hires

Toyota’s New Boss Starts Day One With 2,317 Hires

Wheel Front Team Apr 7, 2026

On April 1, under cherry blossoms in full bloom at Toyota City headquarters, Kenta Kon addressed 2,317 new employees as the company’s 13th president —…

A ZR1 Can’t Outrun a Radio in Arkansas

A ZR1 Can’t Outrun a Radio in Arkansas

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

A brand-new Arctic White Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 — a car engineered to hit 233 mph — got boxed in by slow traffic on a county…

LA Firefighters Now Lane-Split on Electric Dirt Bikes

LA Firefighters Now Lane-Split on Electric Dirt Bikes

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

Thirty electric motorcycles just joined the Los Angeles Fire Department fleet, donated by Google and YouTube, and they tell you everything you need to know…

BMW Will Weaken Its Engines to Save the Manual

BMW Will Weaken Its Engines to Save the Manual

Wheel Front Team Apr 6, 2026

BMW’s M division is quietly admitting what enthusiasts don’t want to hear: the only way to keep the manual transmission alive is to make the…

GM Crushed Its EV1s. Now It’s Helping Restore One.

GM Crushed Its EV1s. Now It’s Helping Restore One.

Wheel Front Team Apr 5, 2026

General Motors spent the early 2000s systematically crushing nearly every EV1 it ever built. Now the company is digging through its own archives and shipping…