The epidemic continues. Today is July 1, 2014. GM has recalled 29 million vehicles in a period of six months in 2014. Last year alone, all car manufacturers recalled approximately 22 million vehicles total. GM has surpassed that number in just half a year. On Monday, June 30, GM recalled another 8.2 million vehicles stemming [...]
The recalls continue to roll out of GM. Only 5 ½ months into the new year, GM has astonishingly eclipsed 13 million vehicles that have been recalled due to a wide variety of defects and dangers. On May 16, 2014, GM announced it would recall another 2.4 million automobiles due to an internal circuit defect. [...]
Shortly after Easter 2014, General Motors revealed that the troubled auto manufacturer is the subject of 5 different government probes. The probes were revealed in GM’s required regulatory filing. The investigations are under the direction of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the SEC, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [...]
On Friday, GM did what was become the norm for 2014 for the automobile giant. GM issued another recall. Under heavy scrutiny from Congress and NHTSA for the ignition switch recall that resulted in congressional hearings for two days, GM recalled the same ignition switch vehicles that have been embroiled in controversy for another defect. [...]
From 2010-2013, GM recalled 7 million vehicles for varying defects. In 2014 alone, GM has recalled nearly 7 million cars and trucks. Under heavy scrutiny from Congress and NHTSA for the ignition switch recall; GM continues to recall more and more vehicles. In mid-March, GM recalled 1,543,323 vehicles in 3 separate recalls. This week, as [...]
In the continuing saga of General Motors’ ignition switch recall; these were General Motors’ responses to questions posed by NHTSA prior to the hearings set to take place on April 1 and 2. 1. Has GM made a defect decision and filed the 573 paperwork as to every vehicle it manufactured that contained or could [...]
1.6 million recalled GM vehicles including 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalts, 2003-2007 Saturn Ions, 2006-2007 Chevrolet HHR and Pontiac Solstice vehicles, and the 2007 Saturn Sky vehicles models, which are clearly linked to 13 deaths and 31 injuries, as numerous observers, are asking why this occurred. 2005 Saturn Ion The first level of responsibility is [...]
2013 Buick Enclave In the wake of recalling 1,367,146 GM vehicles due to faulty ignition switches that could switch off and an ongoing NHTSA investigation into that particular recall, GM has issued another 3 recalls affecting 7 different models that GM manufacturers. The total amount of cars affected is 1,543,323. In the last [...]
2006 Chevrolet Cobalt GM will recall 619,122 vehicles due to an ignition switch defect. The vehicles affected by this recall are the 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2007 Pontiac G5 vehicles. The issue is that the ignition switch torque performance is not up to specification. A heavy key ring or a “jarring event” such [...]