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Miles apart: When Honda CEO Officer Toshihiro Mibe (right) was asked at a joint press conference with Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida (left) what was attractive about teaming up, he struggled to answer.

Scrapping $97b Honda deal would leave Nissan stranded

Like the driver who stubbornly insists they know where they’re going but ends up lost, pride may have caught up with Nissan when it shelved its tie-up with Honda.

  • Gearoid Reidy

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Tesla’s Model 3 is struggling in particular.

Is it the Musk effect? Tesla sales slump in Australia and Europe

The plunge in Tesla sales comes amid Musk’s increasing involvement in global politics and rising competition from China.

  • David Swan
WAtoday speed cameras Kwinana Freeway, Mitchell Freeway. Picture; WAtoday

9 cameras over 25km: ‘Game-changer’ freeway speed camera locations revealed

Four locations along the freeway are about to get new fixed cameras as authorities prepare to begin fining drivers breaching road rules within its point-to-point average speed zone.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Bonk into one of these in the car park and you could get off easier when it comes to your insurance premiums.

Why you’d be better off hitting a Maserati than my crappy Mazda

Bonk into a $700,000 Maserati in the car park, and you could get off easier when it comes to your insurance premiums.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Holden’s owner, General Motors, is facing a class action over alleged defects.

Holden faces class action over alleged transmission defects

Law firm Maurice Blackburn alleges Holden’s parent company, General Motors, sold cars with faulty transmissions.

  • Tung Nguyen
Electric vehicle sales have slowed.

Cost-of-living crisis meets new era of electric cars

Customers are voting with their wallets and continuing to buy more clean cars despite a tougher economic outlook.

  • Mike Foley
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The price is fright!

And the resolution is blurry.

Victoria’s road toll over the past 15 years.

Victoria’s road toll by the numbers: View 15 years of data for your suburb

Between 2010 and 2024, almost 4000 people were killed on Victorian roads. Use our interactive tools to learn how many road deaths occurred in your suburb.

  • Brittany Busch and Craig Butt
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Borrowers buy back the pharm

While Ukrainians discover a fate worse than Vlad.

New rules to bring more and cheaper EVs to Australia

Australia joins every other developed economy – except for Russia – by imposing fuel efficiency standards.

  • Mike Foley

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