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A 1963 Stunt Film Proves Stupid Driving Is Eternal

A 1963 Stunt Film Proves Stupid Driving Is Eternal

Wheel Front Team Jul 1, 2026

Joie Chitwood rolled Chevrolets down hillsides, plowed into parked cars, and staged head-on near-misses on film in 1963, all to show Americans what careless driving looked like. Sixty-two years later, the footage could pass for a Tuesday afternoon dashcam compilation…

Readers Rewrote Every Auto Slogan and It Hurts

Readers Rewrote Every Auto Slogan and It Hurts

Wheel Front Team Jul 1, 2026

Jalopnik threw a grenade into its comment section over the weekend, asking readers to rewrite automaker slogans with a dose of truth. The results landed…

25,000 Vespas Swarm Rome to Celebrate 80 Years

25,000 Vespas Swarm Rome to Celebrate 80 Years

Wheel Front Team Jul 1, 2026

Twenty-five thousand Vespa owners from 67 countries descended on Rome this week, threading their scooters past the Colosseum, through Piazza Venezia, and along the Fori…

A Dead 1982 Toyota Just Made the Slate Truck Look Silly

A Dead 1982 Toyota Just Made the Slate Truck Look Silly

Wheel Front Team Jun 30, 2026

The Slate Truck rolled onto the market at $24,950 as the cheapest new EV you can buy. A YouTuber just built something arguably more interesting…

Mazda’s Le Mans-Winning 787B Is Headed to Laguna Seca

Mazda’s Le Mans-Winning 787B Is Headed to Laguna Seca

Wheel Front Team Jun 30, 2026

Thirty-four years after it screamed across the finish line at La Sarthe and into the history books, Mazda’s 787B is crossing the Pacific for a…

The 1M Hatchback BMW Refused to Build Now Exists

The 1M Hatchback BMW Refused to Build Now Exists

Wheel Front Team Jun 30, 2026

BMW sold the 1M for exactly one model year, 2011, as a two-door coupe, then killed it. No hatchback. No sedan. No version with rear…

The $25K Beach Buggy That Won’t Arrive Until 2028

The $25K Beach Buggy That Won’t Arrive Until 2028

Wheel Front Team Jun 30, 2026

A startup called Amble wants your $100 deposit today for an electric beach buggy it won’t deliver for three years. The Amble One, a doorless,…

This $8K Toyota Mirage Camper Refuses to Die

This $8K Toyota Mirage Camper Refuses to Die

Wheel Front Team Jun 29, 2026

A 1985 Toyota Mirage camper with 105,510 miles on the clock has surfaced on Facebook Marketplace in Scottsville, Virginia, asking $8,000 for what amounts to…

The Land Yacht Is Dead, and Nobody Built a Successor

The Land Yacht Is Dead, and Nobody Built a Successor

Wheel Front Team Jun 29, 2026

The last real land yacht rolled off an American assembly line sometime in the early 1990s, and the industry has spent three decades trying to…

$250 CarPlay in a 20-Year-Old 4Runner Beats New Cars

$250 CarPlay in a 20-Year-Old 4Runner Beats New Cars

Wheel Front Team Jun 29, 2026

While automakers like GM strip Apple CarPlay out of brand-new vehicles, a 2006 Toyota 4Runner with nearly 300,000 miles just got it for $250 and…