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GM Set To Surpass Total Recall Record This Year
On Thursday GM shocked the world when it announced the latest 5 recalls in a seemingly endless series ever since it went under fire before Congress for hiding its unprecedented quality control problem earlier this year, in which it was revealed the bailed out company was willing to risk the lives of its customers just to avoid the cost of recalls, bringing the total number of recalls for 2014 alone to 24, resulting in some 12.8 million cars recalled globally. Putting this number in context:
- GM sold 9.7 million cars in all of 2013
- GM had less than 1 million recalls in 2013
- GM had 9 million recalls in the five year period from 2008 to 2013
- GM's domestic recalls so far in 2014 amount to11.1 million, just shy of its previous one year recall record of 11.8 attained in 2004
And here is the chart showing that there is never just one cockroach, especially not when Congress comes sniffing around:
As USA Today noted:
A significant number are products of the "new GM" formed in the government-scripted bankruptcy reorganization in 2009. The new company was supposed to be freed from the financial stress and corner-cutting of "old GM."
"The volume and steady drip of recalls at GM are certainly taking their toll on the brand. In the eyes of many, the 'new GM' is looking like the old GM — poor quality," says Daniel Hill, president of Ervin-Hill Strategy, a public relations and government-affairs consultant.
And here is the table confirming that indeed new GM is about as bad as old GM, and worse when one considers the current "old" management team will hide the truth about its quality control. Or lack thereof.
Or, as Fight Club explained, AxB=X <> Cost of recall...
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Government Motors says: See you on the highway!
No more speed, I'm almost there
Gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
Last car to pass, here I go...
BOOM!
Ogolfer will bail out GM again and again and again.
That's what socialists do.
F*CK COLLECTIVISM!
The volume and steady drip of recalls at GM are certainly taking their toll on the brand. In the eyes of many, the 'new GM' is looking like the old GM — poor quality," says Daniel Hill, president of Ervin-Hill Strategy, a public relations and government-affairs consultant.
Majority of vehicles recalled are pre-2009, not to say GM is managed well now but the the shit managers / executives who ran the company into the ground get off the hook as usual.
WE DID IT!!!!
Um...
Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in!
I guess she was talking about Gov't Mtrs. cars...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzDO86iSKWU
WE DID IT!!!...
(Cheney, to Bush, September 12)
Ogolfer will bail out GM again and again and again.
That's what socialists do
I surmise you missed the course on fascism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o
"As GM goes, so does the country"
"So hop in your wife and head in any direction on the highway of your choice to Ralph's Spoilsport Motors..." -- Firesign Theater
GM = Generic Motors
GM = Government Motors
Symbolic of government and the corporatocracy.
Push out inventory, ignore problems, try and mop it up later.
GM should have been put out of its misery in 2009, just like all the other corrupt poorly managed crony banks/corporations/insurers.
This is what you get when you reward failure; more failure.
I can but hope that GM supplies all the vehicles for DHS and the other three letter Govt. agencies.
That would be true irony.
They do.
Great, big, black Suburbans...lots and lots of them...
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pictures+of+government+suburbans&qpv...
Time to change their name to Allay Motors. It will work.
LOL!
Or...General Motors Acceptance Corporation or...Ally Financial.
Whatever you call them; they're all bankrupt bitchez
John Deere Tractor vs. 1800s Steam Tractor.
They don't make shit like they used to.
Weight
This explains all those endless fields stuffed with cars. Those "Killing fields" keep on hunting the dollar.
There's a reason why shitty companies are supposed to die off in capitalism . Unfortunately by rewarding failure and bailing them out all we have done is shown we will settle for sub-standard products and they will continue to get worse. I'm just curious to see if I'll be around the next time they are bailed out. Judging from GM's recent behavior I probably will.
Bullish! Think of all the extra work created to service recalls, replace busted parts, and requesting more bailouts. It's a perpetual motion machine
Death Race 2014. Just how long you live depends on the model you drive.
this is exaclty why i will never buy a car from GM...
they should have been allowed to go bankrupt - a result of their lame business model and products...
but the ConMan In Chief had to pay back his overpaid pension privileged muppets who like public pensioners r bankrupting every fucking city across the country..
this country is so fucking doomed...
now back to ur regulary programmed bullshit.....
DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS - just for good measure.
An OnStar transmitter buried in every in every unit that rolled off the assembly line. It was a dream come true for the NSA.
The Obama campaign slogan should have been: Osama bin Laden is dead, and Gereral Motors is still killing people.
Speaking of cars; I just got back from shopping for a few items at Trader Joe's. I prefer to walk there because the parking is soo bad. I'm thinking to myself as I'm crossing the streat, "it feels like I'm going to get hit," but there was noting coming except if a car plowed into the one at the crosswalk and I could avoind that. I go into TJs and everyone is running to the back of the store. I think, "what did I forget the deoderant today."
Someone finally couldn't take the parking lot conditions of trying to find a place and decided to drive into the store through the back sliding glass door and right in the middle of the store.
Last week while out jogging a motorcyclist just fell on the ground and started spinning around on the pavment until finally smashing into the curb.
Is it just me or has the world gone haywire?
It's you.
No, it's not, the US society and culture is just changing. I cannot go into it because its politically incorrect and if I ever want to be employed or have friends I have to keep my mouth shut from voicing my opinion.
So everythings just duckie.
We have good meaning people coming to this country because it was a nice place to be so when they get here they want to change society and culture, does that make sense? (We also have some not so well meanign people coming to the country that want to change it too)
I was in Walmart this AM just because, and I look around and in a middle income area, I am the only pure Ameerican male caucasian, and I know that partly becasue nobody was speaking english. Nobody. I was not upset nor mad, I was saddened.
Then we have people born and riased here and all people want is soemthign free and to avoid work at any cost. and they do and its not great but what the heck, they do not have to work.
Now we have Obamacare which everyweek something else embarrassing comes up which the proponents gloss over and say how great it is, just like they say Medicare is a great plan convienently forgetting to say its going bk.
THen we have The Fed, oh the Fed, which ths far has taoered 40 bil a month, yet somehow Belguim comes up with 40 billion in March to buy Treasuries.
At same time we are told we cannot have people working full time and not making enough money. So we hear the push for higher minimum wage, conviently forgetting how it will ratchet up wages across the board and forgetting we are in a competitive world where other countries are paying people bupkis.
No, nobody has gone insane. and haywire. Most have.
And a good writer could really expand on this sarcastic approach.Maybe Jon Stewart can do it in such a way that his minions understand how FUBAR these ideas are.And not laugh as if its a joke.
too close to home, bro. just saw that story on the evening news. porn capital of the world = bat shit crazy people running around. as if all the herpes and syphillis floating around town weren't enough to keep a guy in his hilltop compound.
Oh, it's like that every DAY in D.C. That isn't 'NEWS'...
Just another ATH ... weather related ... bullish!
This is what happens when a corrupt government saves a shit company for "the greater good."
*sigh* I think it's a total crap-shoot (mostly) with new vehicles these days. There seems to be way more recalls of lots of makes than ever. My 1st car was a '72 Chevelle and it was a tank. GM holds no fault for the death of that car - I take full responsibility. The only true lemon I ever bought was a Ford but the best can't-kill-it stories I know of are Ford products. Most recent being a buddy that was driving an '80's-something Ranger for several years. He's a cheapskate like me and beats the hell out of his vehicles for work. Only buys older that he knows he has the tools and know-how to work on himself. Thing had 250K+ miles on it and already fugly as hell when he hit a deer one night close to home. Limped it there even though the radiator was destroyed. Front bashed in enough he couldn't pull it so, next day used a load-strap around a tree, threw it in R, pulled and replaced and put the front end back together with a network of bungee cords. Drove that m-f'r for another year or 2. LOL. On that rambling note I raise a glass to all my cheap-bastard friends.
Two ways to look at these crappy cars--if you buy a cheap one, what do you expect. If you buy an expensive one, the last thing you want to do is complain that you paid too much for a car that does not work right.
I remember when I bought a new car in the 70's It was late 1970 and AI have just returend frim the Army and needed to buy a car, GM union was on strike so there were limtied cars so I bought a buick.
My forst visit to dealer I had a 17 point list of things that had to be fixed.
The second time I have only 8 or 9 including an electrical problem that necessitated the dash being disassembled.
I called the dealer around 4 PM to make sure the car was ready an d hey told me no-the car was al taken apart and they needed extra time-come the next day.
However, I had gotten a ride from a guy I barely knew who did not want to drive me to my home 10 miles away so he just dropped me at dealer and I figured maybe they would give me a loaner or I just take a cab.
I get there and I see my car in the back lot, untouched. With my extra key I get in and drive home and drive back the next morning. They did not know my car was taken nor did they apparently care. Piss poor manufacturer, piss poor dealer. Thats how Toyota got its footing here in the US.
It took a govt bailout -scratch that-it took a bailout by the taxpayer without representation to keep GM afloat and GM does not deserve to be kept afloat, The union workers bear responsibility too and they were saved by the taxpayer.
I am not too keen on union workers, as you may tell. The are part of the problem not the solution. Take a car in for service, they are on break and I have to wait--thats not customer service. And they did not give a hoot 40 years ago and its no differnt now.
But its politically incorrect to challenge unions. And don't you want to see the unskilled workers make more money?
I am old enough to remember when people worked hard becasue they had to put food on the table, somethgns they even did work they did not want to do or was hard labor.
Yeah, going back to a prior post society and culture has changed, People feel entitled now and we have a government that encourages that for votes to give away stuff for fress not caring who is gong to pay.
thats why the US is headed south. We have shot ourselves in our collective feet.
I'll be back!
All these recalls strikes me as a response to bury the one really nasty one that many people at GM knew about and did not report. Sort of like how a financial firm buries the outrageous interest rate on the debt, or that you have signed your rights away on a dispute, when you get a whole bunch of forms and fine print dropped on you.
GM is in total CYA mode on this, probably including appointing Mary Barra to the top job, figuring that a woman makes a more difficult target. Hiding the elephant in the room by saying "well, we recalled everything in sight, we are doing our best", and "we recalled 30 gazillion cars and only 50 deaths were suffered from all those errors. Within the realm of chance". The trump card, trial ballooned a few weeks ago, "it was the old GM, prior to the reorganization". Look for that to be doubled down upon, when GM hides behind the "no liabilities for cars built prior to reorganization", which just happened to be specifically inserted into the reorganization agreement. They will try to extend it to say "well, the defective part was designed prior to reorganization, even if it was manufactured and installed later on".
Weasels all around. And what about the $35 million fine? Didn't Toyota get a $1.2 billion fine for arguably no defect at all in their cars (the runaway acceleration thing)?
GM, Guido Motors.
gm and chrysler should have been left to die
Detroit Auto Workers Busted on the Job
-POTUS Choom bro
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Beastie Boys - Sabotage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE (3:01)
While UAW Government Motors struggles for integrity, transparency and truth,
it's architects faces increasing cries for impeachment.
There's a revolution going on right now:
http://bit.ly/1qLGsiD
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_x5-IfVjs (4:54)
I call it… Minor Threat - Stumped
Blues Traveler - Hook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM (4:25)
And what you won't see on the MSM is the same witch hunt that happened to Toyota back in 2009 after the Governmemt bailed out GM and had their Cash for clunker debacle which Toyota was the bread winner on but had sticky gas pedals?Calling Phil leBeau...ring,ring, ring...The person you are trying to reach is either unavalible or has a mailbox that is full. please try again another time. Thank you
I'm still trying to figure out how the Government sold everything weeks before the recalls started being announced? They took the 10 BILLION dollar loss and then bam...Recall after recall and the truth comes out...
Calm down, low quality is a completely normal symptom in central planning.
If GM is smart they should be proud of these recalls and put the spin out that 'the new GM' will back its products and fix anything wrong.
They have really earned the sarcastic title of "Government Motors".
Lies, Cover-ups, Belief in their own "corporate politcally correct" BS over reality, Twisted financials, etc... just in time for the Obummer to drain some more taxpayer blood and work some voodoo to deliver votes for the mid-term elections.
Scum.
Toyota should be hiring guillotine operators over this fiasco.
The build quality of GM cars is atrocious.
I've had the "pleasure" of driving one of thoese post bailout GM cars. Sticking with Toyota and Ford from now on.
Stick with what you know: I have a Ford that's running along just fine and is about to break 150K.
I mean, GM's build quality probably puts them about a level below the Koreans. Their cars are not worth it compared to what you can get for an equivalent price.
GM= Generally Morons.
+1
A government agency admitting a mistake? The world is truly upside down.