> Tesla has to repair 53.000 cars, this is in itself newsworthy
You're right, that would be very newsworthy! Of course, it's not true, which I think rather supports my point about the headline.
(If you read the article, the number of repairs needed is actually only ~1k, because only 2% of the 53k cars actually has a faulty gear that needs replacement. The recall is for 53k cars because they don't know which 2% has the issue, so the headline is technically true, but there's a big difference between "Tesla shipped 53k defective cars" and "Tesla shipped 1k defective cars". The former is much more newsworthy! But also false.)