Really? You make it sound like that’s GM’s ONLY RECALL. It wasn’t. Of the top 10 largest recalls - GM holds 4 of them for a total of over 15 million vehicles.
The main reason their latest recall was so low was because it was caught early. Not all are caught early. Many times a problem doesn’t arise until long after vehicles have been on the road.
Of course it isn’t. But a stop sale order for 3000 cars is a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning. Honda recalls 2.5M at one time and where’s the hue and cry over that?
Where wasn’t the outcry. It was all over the news. Every major outlet reported it.
The difference between 3000 vehicles and 2.5 million vehicles is timing. GM found it early enough to fix the defect before it got worse. Lexus had a recall of the 2007 ES-350 that affected a total of 200 cars. Problem with the return pipe of the transmission cooler. It too was all over the news. Lexus luckily caught it before it became a big did. I applaud GM for their quick response. They must have learned their lesson for the problem with intake manifold gaskets - Took then over a DECADE to fix that one.
I think every automaker learned a big lesson when Toyota was fined $1.2 billion for their slow response to the sudden acceleration issue. That fine was finally exceeded by Cummins $1.675 billion fine announced yesterday for diesel emissions defeat devices. This last one addresses an issue that started in 2013.