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GM Recalls - - - - Just Coincidence on Timing?
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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2518545" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I stumbled across this little gem this morning</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/05/21/gm-sure-recalled-a-lot-of-cars-right-after-the-feds-sold-their-shares/" target="_blank">GM Sure Recalled a Lot of Cars Right After the Feds Sold Their Shares</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">May 21, 2014 By Sean Davis</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Federalist</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">According to recent reports, GM just recalled another 2.4 million vehicles this week, bringing the total number of recalled GM vehicles this year to a record 13.6 million. USA Today got right to the point when it asked, Are there any GM cars that havent been recalled?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> The rapid pace of General Motors recalls is intentional, as the company delves into its records to find and purge lurking safety issues.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> But its unsettling, leaving an impression GM produces unsafe vehicles and, in some cases, makes dumb mistakes. It recalled 8,208 of its 2014 cars on May 7, for example, because they might have rear brakes on the front wheels.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> On Tuesday, GM issued four more recalls totaling 2.42 million vehicles in the U.S. And GM says it has informed regulators about two more recalls imminent but not yet announced. The latest batch includes safety belt, air bag, transmission and electrical issues in a range of midsize sedans, full-size crossovers and SUVs, and pickups.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">And the recalls arent over ticky-tack problems like a sticky chair recliner button or a window that doesnt always roll down. Many of the malfunctions are deadly serious. In over 1,400 recalled 2015 Cadillac Escalades, poor welding resulted in a passenger side air bag that might not fully deploy in the event of a crash. Then theres the infamous faulty ignition switch, which led to the recall of 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts. That faulty part has now been linked by GM to 13 deaths.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Thats all terrible, you might say, but at least GM acted as soon as it knew there was a problem. Because its not like the company would sit on the information and do nothing about it, right? Right?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Not so much.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">GM knew about serious problems with the ignition switch for years, going back to at least 2007. At that time, GM had hard data from multiple crashes showing that some of its ignition switches had failed to function properly. The U.S. government officially bailed out the automaker in December of 2008. Throughout the five-year period of U.S. government ownership, nothing was done to address the deadly switch. <strong>According to one timeline of events, GMs new CEO, Mary Barra, claims she did not even learn of the problem until December of 2013, which just so happens to be when the federal government sold its final shares of GM stock (at a loss of $10 billion, naturally).</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Even though the company had data demonstrating a faulty ignition switch for years, it didnt initiate a full investigation or recall until February of 2014, two months after the government sold its stake in the company. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) didnt initiate a full investigation of the issue until later that month, even though the U.S. government had owned the company for 5 years. The Justice Dept. also showed up late to the party, confirming that same month that it had initiated a criminal probe into the matter.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">GM disclosed that its recalls this year would cost the company $1.7 billion.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Taxpayers, drivers, and investors who assumed the government would never fail to disclose rampant safety problems in a company it owned can rest easy, though. Instead of investigating fatally flawed GM components while the U.S. government was the companys largest single owner, the NHTSA was busy harassing Toyota one of GMs top competitors for an alleged malfunction that led to unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Toyota was fined and eventually bullied into recalling 8 million vehicles over the issue.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">And what was the final result of the NHTSA investigation?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Many drivers may have confused the gas and brake pedals a problem that may account for the vast majority of the unintended acceleration incidents the agency investigated, NHTSA deputy administrator Ron Medford said at Tuesdays NHTSA press briefing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> What mostly happened was pedal misapplication where the driver stepped on the gas instead of the brake or in addition to the brake, Medford said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Our nation is in the safest and most ethical of hands.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 2518545, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]I stumbled across this little gem this morning [URL="http://thefederalist.com/2014/05/21/gm-sure-recalled-a-lot-of-cars-right-after-the-feds-sold-their-shares/"]GM Sure Recalled a Lot of Cars Right After the Feds Sold Their Shares[/URL] May 21, 2014 By Sean Davis The Federalist According to recent reports, GM just recalled another 2.4 million vehicles this week, bringing the total number of recalled GM vehicles this year to a record 13.6 million. USA Today got right to the point when it asked, Are there any GM cars that havent been recalled? The rapid pace of General Motors recalls is intentional, as the company delves into its records to find and purge lurking safety issues. But its unsettling, leaving an impression GM produces unsafe vehicles and, in some cases, makes dumb mistakes. It recalled 8,208 of its 2014 cars on May 7, for example, because they might have rear brakes on the front wheels. On Tuesday, GM issued four more recalls totaling 2.42 million vehicles in the U.S. And GM says it has informed regulators about two more recalls imminent but not yet announced. The latest batch includes safety belt, air bag, transmission and electrical issues in a range of midsize sedans, full-size crossovers and SUVs, and pickups. And the recalls arent over ticky-tack problems like a sticky chair recliner button or a window that doesnt always roll down. Many of the malfunctions are deadly serious. In over 1,400 recalled 2015 Cadillac Escalades, poor welding resulted in a passenger side air bag that might not fully deploy in the event of a crash. Then theres the infamous faulty ignition switch, which led to the recall of 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts. That faulty part has now been linked by GM to 13 deaths. Thats all terrible, you might say, but at least GM acted as soon as it knew there was a problem. Because its not like the company would sit on the information and do nothing about it, right? Right? Not so much. GM knew about serious problems with the ignition switch for years, going back to at least 2007. At that time, GM had hard data from multiple crashes showing that some of its ignition switches had failed to function properly. The U.S. government officially bailed out the automaker in December of 2008. Throughout the five-year period of U.S. government ownership, nothing was done to address the deadly switch. [B]According to one timeline of events, GMs new CEO, Mary Barra, claims she did not even learn of the problem until December of 2013, which just so happens to be when the federal government sold its final shares of GM stock (at a loss of $10 billion, naturally).[/B] Even though the company had data demonstrating a faulty ignition switch for years, it didnt initiate a full investigation or recall until February of 2014, two months after the government sold its stake in the company. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) didnt initiate a full investigation of the issue until later that month, even though the U.S. government had owned the company for 5 years. The Justice Dept. also showed up late to the party, confirming that same month that it had initiated a criminal probe into the matter. GM disclosed that its recalls this year would cost the company $1.7 billion. Taxpayers, drivers, and investors who assumed the government would never fail to disclose rampant safety problems in a company it owned can rest easy, though. Instead of investigating fatally flawed GM components while the U.S. government was the companys largest single owner, the NHTSA was busy harassing Toyota one of GMs top competitors for an alleged malfunction that led to unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Toyota was fined and eventually bullied into recalling 8 million vehicles over the issue. And what was the final result of the NHTSA investigation? Many drivers may have confused the gas and brake pedals a problem that may account for the vast majority of the unintended acceleration incidents the agency investigated, NHTSA deputy administrator Ron Medford said at Tuesdays NHTSA press briefing. What mostly happened was pedal misapplication where the driver stepped on the gas instead of the brake or in addition to the brake, Medford said. Our nation is in the safest and most ethical of hands. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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