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You’ve got a useless bullbar, but nothing says bush-bashing bogan quite like fitting a snorkel to your 4X4. Snorkels are, of course, a joke, 99.9 per cent of the time. Here’s why… Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support...

JD Power - that perpetual thorn in the side of miscreant carmakers releases its 2021 Vehicle Dependability Study. In related news, Elon Musk prepares the presidential suite of the Hyatt in hell for JD Power... Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like thi...

The anatomy of the most common off-road disaster. Do not let this happen to you. The road to 4X4 hell: so often paved with good intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the chann...

A tired, old ‘brand new’ Pathfinder is due in Australia this winter, promising to be less of a lemon than the current one, dating back to 2013. I strongly suggest buying something else… Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help s...

On February 4, Hyundai Australia recalled 93,572 Tucsons because there’s a potentially defective circuit board in the anti-lock brake system - in the engine bay - which could cause an electrical fire, but not an explosion, because: Physics. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com....

Steep driveways and reversing a trailer: Will you kill the new eight-speed dual clutch transmission in the new Santa Fe and Sorento diesel AWD models? Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via Pa...

Cobalt catalyst moron misrepresentation meltdown. EV zealots get the basics wrong in the comments. Warning: This report may contain traces of nuts. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPa...

Extreme 2021 Santa Fe clutch-slipping, heat loading reverse torture test for Hyundai’s new eight-speed dual clutch transmission, in the driveway from hell. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely v...

I was absolutely wrong about recycling aluminium in my last report on zero emissions and the car industry.  I did claim in that report that recycling aluminium (as opposed to manufacturing it from bauxite, the ore) doesn’t really save you that much CO2/energy. That was categorically wrong.    Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExper...

A prime ministerial populist thought bubble has declared the Australian automotive sector is ‘on track’ for zero emissions by 2050… Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPal: https://www.p...

I’ve clocked 9000kms in the Hyundai Kona Electric, despite a pandemic and wearing pyjamas 24/7. Here’s what I’ve learned about using an EV as primary transport… Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, secur...

OLIGHT FLASH SALE DETAILS  Link:   https://bit.ly/3pA9nYi   10% off discount code (except for items on sale): AEJC10  FLASH SALE from 8pm 28th January to midnight 29th January 2021.   IN THIS REPORT: How a global semiconductor shortage is smashing new car availability.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact   AutoExper...

Let’s get a few things straight, OK? A Kia Stonic is a Kia Rio - only with added roof rails, infinitesimally more luggage space, and 43 millimetres of additional ground clearance. And different hair and makeup. This will cost you $5500 extra, roughly.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://24...

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken the view that those absurdly gigantic and distracting central touchscreens on almost 160,000 Teslas are defective - mainly because they randomly just go blank after about five years of ordinary driving.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance pack...

Fiat Chrysler has merged with PSA Group and the new entity will be called Stellantis.  Stellantis will become the fourth largest carmaker on Earth, behind Toyota, Volkswagen and Hyundai - but it will be a challenge for Stellantis to survive because it has no sales in China (world's largest car market) as well as massive over-production capacity and commitments with the French Government not t...

If you’re in that terrible position - you’ve got a hundred grand in used, unmarked, non-sequential bills, and you need to dispose of it hurriedly … perhaps the BMW 430i could help you out with that.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this re...

Hyundai Palisade - you can see it from space. But, two weeks in - I’m still struggling to figure it out. I’m deeply conflicted here, in the domain of love and hate. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, s...

Internal combustion, dudes: It’s going to underpin transportation for decades to come. If you think internal combustion is dead, it’s time to get on the plane, leave Fantasy Island, and return to the real world.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you...

Tesla fan-boys routinely claim these cars are superior, technically. Vastly so. Unfortunately, the facts don’t concur.   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPal: https://www.paypal....

Ahh yes, Tesla makes a profit. Technically. Five quarters in a row, now. I said they sold their cars at a loss, which they do.  Back in July Tesla hit the milestone of four quarters of consecutive profit, which allowed it to join the S&P 500. But Tesla cannot post a profit from the sales of its cars. If Tesla just made money selling cars, Tesla would be routinely losing money.   Save...

Part one of my response to your most entertaining feedback. Thank you sincerely for hating my recent ‘Tesla is doomed’ video. Currently hated by 21.2 per cent of you, as I present this package. My near-term hate target is 25 per cent hates...   Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadserv...

This episode: airing (and responding to) your representative feedback on trailer sway and heavy towing and general heavy hauling highway mayhem.  Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact OLIGHT FLASHLIGHT DISCOUNT OFFER  Use code AEJC10 for 10% off any purchase Australian customers: https://bit.ly/3pA9nYi   USA customers link: https://bit.ly/...

I know Tesla stock is sky high. Higher even than Electric Jesus himself thinks is reasonable. But the world’s leading EV kit car company is doomed, ultimately. Here are the top reasons why. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can he...

The latest automotive news from Hyundai, Kia, Ford and the general industry this past week or so. I also have the new Olight Freyr flashlight (torch, whatever) to show you right before Christmas - with some brilliant automotive-related use. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com....

In this livestream we discuss the degradation of a Mitsubishi plug-in hybrid battery and the brand’s indifference to his consumer rights. Plus live Q&A with you… Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel,...