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AutoExpert is all about cars from Australian automotive expert, journalist and engineer John Cadogan

  1. 8 AVR.

    Hyundai Palisade Recall: The Deadly Cost Of Half-baked Luxury Tech

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactThis is a report on the recent Hyundai Palisade recall in North America, following a fatal incident involving the powered rear-seat system in certain 2026 Palisade and Palisade Hybrid vehicles.The key point here is not cheap outrage.A child has died. The defect is real. The recall is legitimate.But the facts also suggest Hyundai was already investigating the seat issue before the Ohio tragedy occurred — which makes this a more nuanced story than the usual media template of “they knew and did nothing”.In this report, I unpack:what Hyundai says the defect actually iswhich Palisade models are affectedthe investigation timeline leading up to the recallwhy modern convenience tech can introduce new failure modeswhy complexity is often the enemy of reliabilityand why parents should not outsource vigilance to automation, sensors and product marketingI also put this story in context using child road trauma and drowning data from Australia — because vivid, shocking incidents often dominate headlines, while more mundane (but also more real) risks to children attract far less attention.This is not a defence of Hyundai. They're not off the hook on this.It is an attempt to look at a horrible event clearly, fairly and usefully - constructively, with clarity..#Hyundai #Palisade #Recall #CarSafety #SUV #HyundaiPalisade #AutoSafety #JohnCadogan #AutoExpert

    21 min

  2. 8 AVR.

    The oil shock is real. The 'fuel crisis' is fake.

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactThis is a real oil shock.But it is not the end of oil.And it is not yet the kind of consumer fuel crisis Australia lived through in the 1970s and early 1980s.That’s the point of this report.Right now, a lot of the coverage is blurring two different things:A genuine global supply shockanda full-blown consumer crisisThose are not the same thing.Yes, global oil supply has taken a serious hit.Yes, prices have jumped.Yes, there have been scattered shortages.But no — this is not yet the biggest fuel price spike in history.And no — for most Australians, this is not ration-books, odd/even number plate days, 20-litre caps and queues down the block.That happened in the old oil shocks.This is different.In this report:how big the current oil supply shock actually iswhy a shortage does not mean “the world has run out of oil”how this compares with the Arab oil embargo and the second oil shockwhy the current pain is real, but still not the same as a proper old-school consumer fuel crisiswhy media hype and political overclaim are obscuring the economicsFor most Australians, the real story right now is:fuel is dearer, inflation risk is real, some shortages are real, but this is still a stressed market that is functioning — not Mad Max.If you remember the 1970s or the 1979 shock, I’d be interested in your recollection of what it was actually like on the ground.

    26 min

  3. 8 AVR.

    Chinese Cars: The Nightmare Scenario Just Happened

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactBuying a car from an unknown brand is not just about the car.It’s about who backs it locally when things go wrong.Importer. Distributor. Warranty. Parts. Service. Financial stability.And when one part of that ecosystem starts falling over, owners can end up badly exposed.In this video I break down the growing trouble around XPeng’s Australian importer, what it could mean for customers, and why this is a warning sign for anyone considering a new, unfamiliar brand in Australia’s brutally crowded car market.Because shiny launches are easy.Supporting owners when the business underneath starts coughing up blood is the real test.#Xpeng #EV #Australia #CarIndustry #ConsumerAdvice #AutoExpert

    15 min

  4. 7 AVR.

    3.5 Years. No Servicing. Then This Happened

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactA recent Mercedes-AMG E53 consumer law case is a warning for every car owner.A NSW tribunal dismissed the claim after accepting evidence that the car had been left idle for long periods and had not been serviced for about 3.5 years. In other words: low kilometres did not save the owner. The fine print in the owner’s manual, and the conditions attached to ownership, mattered.That’s the broader point in this report.Most people think “harsh” or “severe” service means towing a bulldozer across the Pilbara. But many owner’s manuals define it much more broadly: short trips, cold starts, heavy traffic, idling, hills, stop-start commuting, and similar everyday use.So this is not just a Mercedes story.It’s a story about the hidden trap in your owner’s manual:the caveats, conditions and maintenance obligations most owners never read until something expensive breaks.If you buy a car, you don’t just buy transport.You also buy the attached terms and conditions.Website: https://autoexpert.com.au#Mercedes #ConsumerLaw #Warranty #CarAdvice #CarOwnership #Servicing #AMG #AutoExpert

    16 min

  5. 7 AVR.

    The Fuel Panic Is Real. The Diesel Apocalypse Isn’t

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactAustralia’s fuel panic is real. But the so-called “dirty diesel apocalypse” all over social media? Not so much.In this video I break down what’s actually changed in Australia’s temporary fuel standards response to the current supply crunch — and what hasn’t.Because there are two completely different stories getting mashed together online:petrol sulfur has been temporarily relaxeddiesel sulfur has notThere has been a minor temporary change to diesel, but it’s about flash point — not sulfur — and that is not the same thing as “bad fuel destroying modern engines”.So if you drive a modern diesel with AdBlue, a DPF, SCR, or common-rail injection, should you be panicking?No.I explain:whether Australia has relaxed sulfur limits for dieselwhy Facebook “experts” are getting this badly wrongwhat flash point actually meanswhy petrol and diesel are being confusedwhat the practical implications are for ordinary vehicle ownerswhether modern diesels are really at riskIf you’ve been hearing that “dirty diesel” is about to kill your car, this is the reality check.Got industry insight from fuel distribution, refining, workshops, fleet maintenance, or dealership service? Drop it in the comments.Subscribe for more no-BS analysis on cars, policy, EVs, towing, engineering, and the ways governments and manufacturers try to spin the facts.#Diesel #FuelCrisis #DirtyDiesel #AdBlue #FuelPrices #Australia #BMWX5 #AutoExpert

    23 min

  6. 6 AVR.

    Ford’s F-150 Lightning Disaster Has Claimed 100 Jobs In Brisbane

    A Brisbane vehicle remanufacturing company called BossCap has collapsed — and up to 100 jobs now appear to be at risk.BossCap’s AusEV division built its business around converting the Ford F-150 Lightning to right-hand drive for Australia. But when Ford ended production of the current-generation Lightning, that supply pipeline appears to have fallen apart — and with it, the foundation of the business.This video is about more than one company going under.It’s about what happens when a niche Australian manufacturer builds its future on top of a global EV product that never stacked up commercially in the real world.Ford sold the Lightning as the future. But affordability blew out, the economics never worked, and Ford itself eventually admitted large EVs had “no path to profitability”. Now the casualties are showing up far from Detroit — in Brisbane.In this report:• why BossCap/AusEV collapsed• how dependent it was on F-150 Lightning supply• what Ford has really said about killing the current Lightning• whether the promised “range-extender” replacement is real, or just spin• and why reality always wins when ideology outruns engineering, economics and the marketThe workers deserve your sympathy.The decision-makers deserve scrutiny.#Ford #F150Lightning #EV #ElectricVehicles #Bosscap #AusEV #AutoExpert

    17 min

  7. 6 AVR.

    Taxpayers Paid $1.5 Million For The Dumbest EV Charging System I’ve Seen

    This is what “the future” looks like when governments, green lobbyists and EV true believers get together with your wallet.At Sierra in Hawthorn, Melbourne, taxpayers helped fund a $1.5 million EV charging retrofit for an upscale apartment complex. The headline sounds impressive. The reality? A ceiling full of ordinary power points, a load-management system, and a setup that can only trickle charge a limited number of EVs at a time in rotating 10-minute intervals when demand is high.In other words: not proper charging infrastructure. More like a taxpayer-funded rationing system for rich apartment owners.In this report, I break down:• what was actually installed• why Level 1 charging is glacially slow• why this kind of system is no substitute for real infrastructure• what it says about the fantasy of large-scale apartment EV charging• and why the emissions argument is a lot shakier than the activists pretendBecause when you strip away the press releases, the ministerial spin and the EV-suck media coverage, this looks a lot less like progress and a lot more like greenwashed theatre.If you like facts, engineering, and calling out public-policy idiocy when you see it, you’re in the right place.

    19 min

  8. 6 AVR.

    Game over: What I saw inside Hyundai's China factory

    I will get you a great deal on home solar (or add a quality battery to your existing setup): https://autoexpert.com.au/solarI can also save you thousands on a new car: https://autoexpert.com.au/contactThe new Hyundai Elexio is the first Hyundai designed and engineered in China to be sold in Australia. That alone is a big deal — but the real story is what I saw when I went to China to look behind the scenes.In this video I take you inside Hyundai’s massive R&D centre in Yantai and the Beijing Hyundai factory where the Elexio is built. What’s happening there will probably challenge a lot of assumptions Australians still have about Chinese engineering and manufacturing.The Yantai R&D centre is enormous: full vehicle design capability, 35km of test tracks with 17 different surfaces, climate chambers, and a crash-test centre running hundreds of crash tests every year to global standards including Euro NCAP and ANCAP.Then there’s the factory — one of Hyundai’s most modern plants anywhere in the world. Massive press lines stamp body panels from coils of high-strength steel. Hundreds of robots weld and assemble the body. Every vehicle is digitally verified for dimensional accuracy, waterproofing, and calibration of systems like the head-up display and 360-degree cameras.The point is simple: the idea that Chinese engineering and manufacturing are somehow second-rate is badly out of date. China has spent the last decade building world-class automotive capability — and most Australians simply haven’t noticed.Hyundai has spent 40 years building its reputation in Australia. They would not risk that reputation by importing a vehicle that didn’t meet their global standards.From what I saw up close in China, there’s no evidence that a Hyundai engineered and built there is inferior to one developed anywhere else.In fact, quite the opposite.Chapters0:00 The first Chinese Hyundai in Australia1:04 Inside Hyundai’s Yantai R&D centre3:40 The crash-test facility7:05 How crash tests actually happen9:30 Beijing Hyundai factory tour11:10 Robots, automation and quality control13:45 What this means for Australian car buyersAbout the ElexioThe Hyundai Elexio is a new mid-size electric SUV designed in China and built by Beijing Hyundai, Hyundai’s joint venture with BAIC. It marks a major shift in Hyundai’s global development strategy — and reflects China’s rapid rise as a powerhouse in automotive engineering and manufacturing.Subscribe for more independent car analysisAutoExpert — real engineering analysis of the automotive industry, EVs, hybrids, and the forces reshaping the global car market.

    20 min
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AutoExpert is all about cars from Australian automotive expert, journalist and engineer John Cadogan

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    John Cadogan
  • Années d’activité
    2019 - 2026
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