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A Flat-Six Subaru Just Embarrassed Rally2 Cars at Olympus

A Flat-Six Subaru Just Embarrassed Rally2 Cars at Olympus

Wheel Front Team Apr 27, 2026

Mark Piatkowski showed up to the 2026 Olympus Rally in a borrowed 2011 Subaru WRX STI with a naturally aspirated flat-six under the hood and 245 horsepower on tap. He left three days later with a seventh-place overall finish, a…

Cadillac’s F1 Debut Hides a Hard Truth Behind the Hype

Cadillac’s F1 Debut Hides a Hard Truth Behind the Hype

Wheel Front Team Apr 27, 2026

Three hundred and sixty-six days. That’s how long it took the Cadillac Formula 1 Team to go from boardroom aspiration to two cars on a…

Toyota’s $1B Ghost Town Has 100 Residents and Big Plans

Toyota’s $1B Ghost Town Has 100 Residents and Big Plans

Wheel Front Team Apr 27, 2026

A hundred people live at the base of Mount Fuji in a city built by the world’s largest automaker, and they’re being watched while they…

Reddick Stays With 23XI After Historic Five-Win Tear

Reddick Stays With 23XI After Historic Five-Win Tear

Wheel Front Team Apr 27, 2026

Tyler Reddick has won five of nine races in 2026, and now he’s staying put. The 30-year-old confirmed a multiyear contract extension with 23XI Racing…

Toyota’s 1-2-3-4 Sweep Exposes a WRC Power Crisis

Toyota’s 1-2-3-4 Sweep Exposes a WRC Power Crisis

Wheel Front Team Apr 27, 2026

Sébastien Ogier won Rally Islas Canarias on Sunday, completing a Toyota 1-2-3-4 finish for the second consecutive year on the asphalt roads of Gran Canaria.…

A Backhoe Engine in a Defender Is Perfectly Unhinged

A Backhoe Engine in a Defender Is Perfectly Unhinged

Wheel Front Team Apr 26, 2026

A British shop spent five years stuffing a JCB backhoe engine into a 1988 Land Rover Defender 110, and now the thing is for sale…

Mini Turns 25 and the Go-Kart Still Has Gas

Mini Turns 25 and the Go-Kart Still Has Gas

Wheel Front Team Apr 26, 2026

Nearly 4.7 million Minis have rolled out of BMW’s Oxford factory since April 26, 2001. That’s a staggering number for a car that was never…

Lamborghini Spent Three Years Undoing a Botched Miura SV

Lamborghini Spent Three Years Undoing a Botched Miura SV

Wheel Front Team Apr 26, 2026

A 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV rolled into Sant’Agata Bolognese at the end of 2023 in a configuration that didn’t match its birth certificate. Three years…

Thunder Mountain Rises Again in Colorado Plains

Thunder Mountain Rises Again in Colorado Plains

Wheel Front Team Apr 26, 2026

The town council of Hudson, Colorado, voted unanimously to approve annexation and zoning for a new Bandimere Speedway, clearing the biggest bureaucratic hurdle yet for…

This Aston Martin-Bodied Miata Is Fooling Nobody

This Aston Martin-Bodied Miata Is Fooling Nobody

Wheel Front Team Apr 26, 2026

A 2007 Mazda MX-5 Miata wearing a handmade Aston Martin body is sitting on Bring a Trailer right now with a bid of $20,500 and…