GM showed "reckless disregard for safety"

The fires started behind the glove-box in the heating and ventilation system, and were a problem in cars. GM was "too slow to acknowledge drivers' concerns, too slow to begin an investigation, too slow to address the causes and too slow to alert drivers of real safety concerns. Drivers and their families were needlessly put at risk," The first report of a fire was noted by GM in 2009, and in 2014, internal concerns over a pattern in reports of fires were raised. However, GM did not launch an investigation into the fires until August 2015. At that time GM logged 161 fires. The MPs suggest that the company put money and reputation ahead of safety when it came to fixing the problem. The report uses damning phrases like "morally reprehensible" and "reckless disregard for safety" when describing the company's sluggish response. It's especially scathing about the fact that GM let people drive around in cars that had been recalled and 'fixed', even when engineers knew they could still catch fire. The BBC covered the issue in Watchdog on 22 October. A complaint was made to the DVSA about that time. GM launched the first recall in December 2015.
In February 2016 it was told about the first fire in a vehicle that had been recalled, but it did not launch its second recall until 19 May 2016.
The MPs were particularly scathing over GM's decision to let people continue to drive vehicles that had been recalled and returned to the owners when the manufacturer knew the cars could still catch fire. (GM's) "decision to continue to let people drive affected cars amounts to a reckless disregard for safety. This is particularly damning given its admission that it should have notified customers earlier," the MPs said, "In the absence of any explanation for its tardy response from the witnesses that appeared before us we can only conclude that commercial considerations and the need to avoid reputational damage were put ahead of safety; this is unacceptable and morally reprehensible"

Did GM have a reputation worth protecting?

So TL;DR, GM sold cars that catch fire, GM knew about it, GM did nothing because meh costs, GM got caught.

This is old news. Who cares.

>Old news
>Report published today.

Inb4 Prez/o/ assrage

>old news republished

Really gets the noggin joggin. As if we didnt know GM was doing some shady shit.

that's not even the news, GM shows reckless disregard for literally everything (especially building good cars) all the time

It's pretty sad when they have fucked up so much in the past that this story doesn't even merit that much notice.

>GM reckless disregard
Stopped reading right there. That's a redundant statement.

Wait, I didn't realise Prez/o/ was an assmad GM fangirl... Is this true?

Prez/o/ is THE assmad GM fangirl dear user

see

Wow its almost like giving government bailouts to a company going under wont work.
I'm one of the biggest GM shills on this site but I cant help but marvel at the shiftiness that is the new yesman ceo and their new marketing plan. If they went bankrupt and bought out they would be in much better shape.

Gm is a massive, massive company. Yes what that group decided to do was really bad but being edgy about it and having brand loyalty/disloyalty is retarded

GM Shouldn't have been bailed out.

Ah good. I was starting to worry that Ford realized everyone knows that their shills are flooding this forum. Good to know they're still ignorant.

>american car companies make sub-par quality products and dont give a shit about safety

This isn't new at all

>useless rear seat brings down the rating
>lack of e-nannies brings down the rating
(((You)))

assmad

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>MPs
So yuropoor and literally nobody cares

>p-please don't take away NATO T-trump....

Bump for Prez/o/ analdamage

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Front seat safety was well below par as well.

Prez/o/...

This isn't the first time. Kek

>crashing your car ever

This is great news.
I bet prices will drop making corvettes™ an even better by far the best performance value in automotive history ever.

You dont need to hide those tears behind those lies Prez/o/, we are here for you buddy

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