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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 pretend SUVs are an adequate replacement. They are not. Jalopnik posed the question to its…

$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…

Ogier Steals Acropolis Glory as Neuville’s Tires Betray

Ogier Steals Acropolis Glory as Neuville’s Tires Betray

Wheel Front Team Jun 29, 2026

Sébastien Ogier entered Sunday’s final leg of the Acropolis Rally trailing Thierry Neuville by 4.1 seconds. He left Greece with a 58.3-second victory, his 69th…

Two Brits Say They Can Build a Lotus in Two Years

Two Brits Say They Can Build a Lotus in Two Years

Wheel Front Team Jun 28, 2026

A mid-engine V-8 2+2 weighing 2000 pounds. A spiritual successor to the Lotus Esprit. And two small U.K. firms claim they could have it road-legal…

A Dummy Lost Its Head to Prove 30 Years of Progress

A Dummy Lost Its Head to Prove 30 Years of Progress

Wheel Front Team Jun 28, 2026

The crash-test dummy’s head ripped clean off. That’s what happened when the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety slammed a 1996 Chevy S-10 Blazer into a…

BMW Killed His Favorite Car, So He Built His Own

BMW Killed His Favorite Car, So He Built His Own

Wheel Front Team Jun 28, 2026

BMW discontinued the X4. No hybrid successor, no combustion replacement — just an electric future on a platform its loyal buyers didn’t ask for. For…

This 52-Mile BMW M2 Cost $114K and Nobody Will Drive It

This 52-Mile BMW M2 Cost $114K and Nobody Will Drive It

Wheel Front Team Jun 27, 2026

Michael Fux doesn’t collect cars the way most people do. He commissions them, drives them almost never, and moves on. His latest castoff is a…

Korea Gets 29 of 135 BMW Nero Lusso 7 Series Units

Korea Gets 29 of 135 BMW Nero Lusso 7 Series Units

Wheel Front Team Jun 27, 2026

Out of 135 vehicles built worldwide, South Korea is getting 29 of BMW’s 7 Series Nero Lusso Edition. That’s more than 21 percent of total…

When Toyota Supercharged a Camry and Called It Cool

When Toyota Supercharged a Camry and Called It Cool

Wheel Front Team Jun 27, 2026

A supercharged V-6 making 247 horsepower, Bilstein monotube struts, a seven-piece body kit, and 17-inch center-lock wheels. This wasn’t a Supra. It was a Camry…

When V-8 Muscle Beat Manners in a 2001 Ragtop Brawl

When V-8 Muscle Beat Manners in a 2001 Ragtop Brawl

Wheel Front Team Jun 27, 2026

Twenty-four years ago, Car and Driver lined up five four-seat convertibles under a $30,000 ceiling and drove them 700 miles across Southern California, from L.A.…