General Motors started the year with more than 83 million reviews cars – RBC

General Motors started the year with more than 83 million reviews cars – RBC

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General Motors Company on January 1 announced a recall of 83.6 thousand SUVs and trucks around the world due to a problem with the ignition. December 31 avtoproizvoditet also released a report on the recall, and the total number of vehicles subject to recall, reached 92 thousand in two days, said the publication The Detroit News.

The report said that the failure of the ignition system may lead to arbitrary stop the vehicle, while in case of an accident the airbag will not work. According to the newspaper, the company is recalling model cars Chevrolet Silverado HD, Silverado LD, Suburban, Tahoe, Avalanche GMC Sierra LD, Sierra HD, Yukon, Yukon XL, Cadillac Escalade, including model Cadillac Escalade ESV and Cadillac Escalade EXT.

The publication notes that during 2014 because of problems with the ignition lock and key company recalled around the world about 14 million cars. In mid-December it became known that in road traffic accidents involving cars General Motors, having a defect ignition, 42 people died and 58 were injured. This was told by the lawyer Kenneth Feinberg , who was hired by the victims to be compensated by GM. Feinberg said that just to August 2014 he received a claim for 251 deaths and two thousand. 075 injury claims. With about 100 of these claims for compensation have legal grounds. The lawyer will take the appropriate application to the January 31, 2015.

He also maintained that General Motors knew about problems with a faulty ignition switch on Chevrolet Cobalts and other small vehicles for over 10 years, but no action is taken until February 2014.

A total of 2014 GM withdrew due to various defects nearly 27 million vehicles in the United States and more than 30 million vehicles in the rest of the world. In June 2014 under the revocable campaign got more than 3.6 million vehicles 2000-2014 model years. In March, due to problems with security systems at service stations were to arrive 1.55 million vehicles, the company had previously recalled 2.6 million vehicles.

On the first problems with the ignition switch GM learned in 2001 about the precarious nest of ignition – at least in 2006. “This will have a new pressure on the company’s shares and may affect other areas of its work, where there are financial problems, – said in April RBC head of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Ferdinand Dudenhoffer . – Reputation damage can worsen the sale. ”