It will be run by Shanghai GM, a joint venture with China's SAIC Motor. PHOTO: REUTERS
General Motors recalled nearly 1.5 million vehicles, including for possible ignition problems blamed for 13 deaths.
The move came after GM called back 1.6 million cars last month amid questions over why it had taken years to address an ignition defect it knew about as early as 2001.
GM said there was no evidence of fatalities from ignition-related incidents in the new group of 824,000 cars being recalled — Chevrolet Cobalts and HHRs, Pontiac Solstices and G5s, and Saturn Skys for 2008-2010 model years.
But it added that 90,000 of the faulty ignitions were in the 2005-2007 models used as replacements in cars covered in the new recall.
GM said it needed to check all of the cars in the new action to see which ones had the potentially faulty replacement ignitions.
“We are taking no chances with safety,” GM’s Chief Executive Mary Barra said in a statement.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 30th, 2014.
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