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The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Is a Monument to Regret

The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Is a Monument to Regret

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Some cars whisper luxury. Others shout ambition. The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 screams something else entirely: that its owner has a profoundly dysfunctional relationship with money, risk, and basic self-preservation. Jalopnik’s Andy Kalmowitz put the question to readers this week —…

The Cars That Made Us: Hollywood’s Best Never Left

The Cars That Made Us: Hollywood’s Best Never Left

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Bruce Campbell announced this week he’s living with an incurable but treatable cancer, and Jalopnik editor Erin Marquis did what any self-respecting gearhead would do…

F1’s Brake Revolution Is the Story Nobody’s Watching

F1’s Brake Revolution Is the Story Nobody’s Watching

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Every car on the 2026 Formula 1 grid runs Brembo Group hardware at each corner. That monopoly isn’t new. What is new is the sheer…

Toyota’s Safari Stranglehold: Can Anyone Break It?

Toyota’s Safari Stranglehold: Can Anyone Break It?

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Five wins from five starts. That’s Toyota’s record at Safari Rally Kenya since the event clawed its way back onto the WRC calendar in 2021.…

Audi Arrives in F1 With Everything to Prove

Audi Arrives in F1 With Everything to Prove

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

March 8, 2026, will be remembered as the day Audi returned to Grand Prix racing for the first time since the Auto Union Silver Arrows…

Volvo Reinvents the Seatbelt It Gave the World

Volvo Reinvents the Seatbelt It Gave the World

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Seventy years ago, a Volvo Amazon prototype rolled out of Gothenburg wearing a two-point, cross-chest diagonal belt — a contraption most drivers had never seen.…

MDC’s 3,300-Pound XT9 Trailer Punches Above Its Weight

MDC’s 3,300-Pound XT9 Trailer Punches Above Its Weight

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

A camper trailer that weighs less than a mid-size sedan but promises genuine off-grid capability just landed on American soil. MDC USA’s XT9 Off-Grid Extreme…

MotoGP’s Tuk-Tuk Grand Prix Stole the Show in Thailand

MotoGP’s Tuk-Tuk Grand Prix Stole the Show in Thailand

Wheel Front Team Mar 4, 2026

MotoGP’s 2026 season opener at Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand delivered plenty of on-track drama. But the moment everyone kept replaying had nothing to…

Tokyo Police Bust Drift Crew as 911 Calls Double

Tokyo Police Bust Drift Crew as 911 Calls Double

Wheel Front Team Mar 4, 2026

Five men are in custody after Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested them on suspicion of dangerous driving at Tokyo Port, where they allegedly turned a public…

A Rebodied Lotus Elise With Sliding Doors for $42K

A Rebodied Lotus Elise With Sliding Doors for $42K

Wheel Front Team Mar 4, 2026

Rezvani Motors built exactly three prototypes of its Elise-based Beast Alpha, and one of them is sitting on Cars & Bids right now with bidding…