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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 about the state of emergency response in America’s second-largest city. The bikes are ERidePro units.…

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…

A Rusty Celica With a GR Corolla Heart Podiums on Ice

A Rusty Celica With a GR Corolla Heart Podiums on Ice

Wheel Front Team Apr 5, 2026

Ryan Tuerck took a front-wheel-drive 1994 Celica GT — a car nobody wanted, stripped to a corroded shell — and turned it into a 600-horsepower…

The Only Kia Sports Car Ever Made Is a Lotus in Disguise

The Only Kia Sports Car Ever Made Is a Lotus in Disguise

Wheel Front Team Apr 5, 2026

A 1997 Kia Vigato just surfaced on Bring a Trailer with 33,000 miles, a five-speed manual, and an identity crisis that spans four countries. It…

Gas Prices May Finally Do What Good Taste Could Not

Gas Prices May Finally Do What Good Taste Could Not

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

Gasoline prices are climbing hard enough to make SUV owners wince at the pump, and the question nobody in Detroit wants to hear is surfacing…

Acura at 40: The Brand That Almost Called Itself Avatar

Acura at 40: The Brand That Almost Called Itself Avatar

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

Honda’s luxury division could have shared its name with giant blue aliens. That’s the kind of bullet a brand dodges only once. Acura is marking…

The 944 Was Porsche’s Smartest Bet of the 1980s

The 944 Was Porsche’s Smartest Bet of the 1980s

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

Car and Driver just resurfaced its 30,000-mile long-term test of a 1983 Porsche 944, originally published in November 1984, and the report reads like a…

The 1965 Iso Rivolta: Italy’s Best Corvette Trick

The 1965 Iso Rivolta: Italy’s Best Corvette Trick

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

A turquoise 1965 Iso Rivolta IR 300 just surfaced on Bring a Trailer, and if you don’t know what it is, that’s exactly the point.…

The Subaru SVX Was Too Weird to Live, Too Good to Die

The Subaru SVX Was Too Weird to Live, Too Good to Die

Wheel Front Team Apr 4, 2026

Subaru hoped to sell 10,000 SVXs a year in the United States. It moved 3,667 in 1992 and 3,859 in 1993. The math never got…