i'd go to work on the wheels/tires before getting too much further. you may not do this but i think the mistake is in thinking of the car as a box without considering the horizon or vanishing point or whatever you wanna call it. the rear wheels don't follow the same line as the front bumper. they often look awkward (i don't mean just YOUR wheels/tires but with many newer artists) and i think that might be the problem. pick a vanishing point in the far distance, draw a line to it from the outside of your tire and do the same for the front wheels and the front bumper. you should find that their angle is slightly different.
also, in your case, think about the front suspension and where it would place that front wheel. we know that the hub swings on a stationary pole basically(steering via ball joints attached to control arms), and it can travel up and down as a whole(springs and shocks). for drawing purposes you don't need any more information than that anyway and thinking of it that way might help with positioning. not that you didn't know this information already, just that even when i'm drawing i have to stop to consider, OK where does this wheel really go if i want it turned like this?
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