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LA Thieves Strip a Porsche 911 Down to Its Skeleton

LA Thieves Strip a Porsche 911 Down to Its Skeleton

Wheel Front Team Apr 20, 2026

A Porsche 911 Cabriolet was found on a Los Angeles street last week with nothing left but its bare unibody and a VIN plate. No engine, no transaxle, no wheels, no bumpers, no lights, no interior, no doors. Officers from…

Ford’s Secret Bullet Train EV Was Hiding on LinkedIn

Ford’s Secret Bullet Train EV Was Hiding on LinkedIn

Wheel Front Team Apr 20, 2026

Doug Field, the now-retired head of Ford’s EV division, quietly posted it as his LinkedIn banner image nearly a year ago. Nobody noticed. Or if…

Audi Hides F1 Ambitions Inside a Meditation Pavilion

Audi Hides F1 Ambitions Inside a Meditation Pavilion

Wheel Front Team Apr 20, 2026

Audi rolled into Milan Design Week with a titanium-skinned pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and a message about slowing down. Then it parked a…

A Floppy Disk Works in a Tesla. Here’s Why.

A Floppy Disk Works in a Tesla. Here’s Why.

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

A Ukrainian engineer plugged a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive into his Tesla last week, and the car recognized it without a single line of code…

Toyota Edges Ferrari at Imola as Penalties Wreck Rivals

Toyota Edges Ferrari at Imola as Penalties Wreck Rivals

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

The No. 8 Toyota TR010 led the No. 51 Ferrari 499P by less than a second at the halfway mark of the 6 Hours of…

Ford’s Nugget Camper Van Hits 40 With No U.S. Visa

Ford’s Nugget Camper Van Hits 40 With No U.S. Visa

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

In 1986, Ford and Westfalia bolted a kitchen and a pop-top roof onto a Transit and called it the Nugget. Forty years later, it’s a…

Mazda’s Le Mans Rotary Still Screams 34 Years Later

Mazda’s Le Mans Rotary Still Screams 34 Years Later

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Thirty-four years after a four-rotor Mazda 787B crossed the finish line at Le Mans and rewrote the record books, a small team of Mazda Heritage…

Acura Turns 40 With a Time Capsule and a Sneaky Focus Group

Acura Turns 40 With a Time Capsule and a Sneaky Focus Group

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Eurythmics pumping through tinny speakers, cathode-ray tubes flickering with grainy car ads, and a pristine 1986 Legend sedan gleaming under showroom lights. That was the…

The Cult-Classic GM Truck Wheel Returns in Forged Form

The Cult-Classic GM Truck Wheel Returns in Forged Form

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Three grand for a set of wheels that mimic a factory option from two decades ago sounds like a tough sell. But if you owned…

The Pope Drove a Stick-Shift Fusion. Ford Lost $4K Each.

The Pope Drove a Stick-Shift Fusion. Ford Lost $4K Each.

Wheel Front Team Apr 19, 2026

Ford CEO Jim Farley recently let slip on the podcast Spike’s Car Radio that Pope Leo XIV — born Robert Francis Prevost, raised in suburban…