Aus ute crisis as second brand issues recall
Catastrophic engine failures in a popular ute brand have led to a recall of 720,000 vehicles around the globe. It comes one day after Ford was forced to do the same thing.
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Musk’s desperate move to save Tesla
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76pc drop: Major nation abandons Tesla
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‘Level of violence is insane’: Musk’s horror
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Video exposes Tesla’s embarrassing AI fail
A comical video experiment intended to test the capability of Tesla’s AI has exposed a huge flaw in the system.
The cars disappearing from Aussie roads
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Wild F1 feature coming to Aussie cars
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Tesla ‘terrorists’ double down against Trump
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Thousands of cars recalled over fire risk
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Minister accused of owning China ‘spy car’
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Chinese ute takes down Aussie favs again
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