GM to recall more than two million vehicles for safety issues

[CountAllVotes]

DETROIT, United States (AFP) - General Motors said it has recalled more than two million vehicles, including some of its most popular cars and trucks, for safety fixes ranging from seat beats to parking brakes.

Of the overall total, about 1.5 million full-size sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks, mostly sold in the United States, are being called back to the shop to fix the seat belt positioning in the rear seat.

In the truck sector, the recall covers Chevy Silverado, Suburban, Tahoe and Avalanche as well as the Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon and Hummer H2 all from model years 2003-2005.

An additional 332,202 Suburban and Yukon models from 2000 to 2001 are being recalled for possible overheating of the fuel pump, which could result in engine stalling and fuel leaks.

Also, 142,585 Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks from 1999-2002 and 2500 and 3500 Series pickups from 2001-2004 have been tagged for recall as have more than 100,000 Buick models from 2004 and 2005 for potential brake and ignition problems.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050425/bs_afp/usautosafetyrecallgm_050425171933

Time to haul that new Humvee back to the place you stupidly bought it from! :sarcasm:

:dem:

[KlatooBNikto]

1. Late Alert: GM to recall all its executives for lack of intelligence issue

[dweller]

6. impeachment instead

Dan Neil tests L.A. Times' safety features
GM pulls ads after critical column
B Y PETER EICHENBERGER

For obvious reasons (many of you not generally being "car" people), some of you may have missed the continuing antics of former Indy writer and former sometime drinking buddy Dan Neil in his career with The Los Angeles
Times.

Dan, some of you may remember, distinguished himself by getting fired from the N&O for
writing about screwing his wife in the back of a Ford Excursion and then went on (nyah,
nyah) to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2004, not for political or social commentary, but for a friggin'
car column, an achievement that induced in this writer a howl of dismay and a violent shredding of the morning paper. "The biggest baddest fin de siécle in history, and we're reduced to talking about cars?" I hissed.

Now I'm beginning to see. Old Danny, in his April 6 column "An American Idle"--a refreshingly corrosive column about the new Pontiac G6 (a typical General Motors wheeled turd) and a whadafug about the sagging fortunes of
"The General"--says the best medicine for GM would be the immediate sacking of North America Chairman
Robert Lutz and Chairman/CEO Rick Wagoner, a statement that probably caused the gold dust twins to
collectively turn the color of raspberry Popsicles.

An excerpt from the column:

It was Lutz, after all, who candidly averred at a Morgan Stanley meeting last month that GM might have to
phase out some of its product lines, even using the word "damaged" to describe Pontiac and Buick. In the
ensuing furor, Lutz claimed his remarks were taken out of context and over-hyped by the sensationalist
media, like that scandal rag Automotive News.
http://indyweek.com/durham/current/triangles.html

for full LAT Neil article:
RUMBLE SEAT / DAN NEIL
An American idle

The Pontiac G6 is a sales flop. At General Motors, let the impeachment proceedings begin.
April 6, 2005

At the moment the news broke, I had written two words of a review of the Pontiac G6: "Dump Lutz."

On Monday morning, the news came that General Motors North America Chairman Robert Lutz and Group Vice President Gary Cowger were "relinquishing" their duties with GM North America to assume unspecified roles in GM's global product development and manufacturing efforts — compared with the high-profile role Lutz has occupied, this is like "extraordinary rendition" to Pakistan.
Although GM's chairman and chief executive is Rick Wagoner, Bob Lutz — also known as "Maximum Bob" — has been the point man for GM policy and future product design, the Great White-Haired Father, the Man with the Golden Gut, the auto industry's most quotable and charismatic executive in a town where charisma is scarcer than banana trees.

In his 3 1/2 -year tenure, GM has lost something like 3 percentage points of market share. I was about to make the case that, given GM's current China syndrome — North American market share dropping to its lowest point in decades, and market analysts, sensing no real momentum for reform within the company, downgrading the company's bond ratings to near-junk status — someone's head ought to roll, and the most likely candidate would be the numinous white noggin of Lutz.

http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-neil6apr06,0,5768781,print.story?coll=la-class-autos-highway1

dp

[AndyTiedye]

8. While GM Sends The EV-1 Electric Cars to the CRUSHER

Can you say STOOOOOOOOOPID?

[havocmom]

2. GM still insisting their problem is 'name recognition' and slapping labels

on vehicles will lift sales?

[DinahMoeHum]

3. . . .like putting lipstick and earrings on a pig. . .

:evilfrown:

[CountAllVotes]

5. my neighbor just bought a brand new V-8 truck

the talk of the block (I guess). I didn't even want to go look at it. I bet it is one that is being recalled too. I know he got a $5,000 rebate or something on it. :shrug:

I don't want one!!!

:kick:

[KittyWampus]

4. Whoa, GM Executives Should Be Poster Boys For CEO Salary Capping

[anarchy1999]

7. Sad, just plain damned sad. We are a nation of idgits and fools.

I'll never forget the gas lines of the 70's.

I'll never forget the carpenter/inventor my first husband worked for. He sold his design for a carburetor that he designed, to Ford Corp. It got 60+ miles to the gallon, Ford killed/buried it.

:tears: