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Auto News, Analysis and EditorialGeneral Motors' Recalls Remain Gargantuan in First Half of 2004
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Auto on Info July 2004 General Motors' Recalls Remain Gargantuan in First Half of 2004 The Detroit Free Press reports that through July 2, 2004, the five auto manufacturers with the largest U.S. market shares have issued the following number of safety recalls:
If the 2003 U.S. market shares of these auto manufacturers are used to adjust the foregoing totals for the different sales volumes of these manufacturers and the resulting adjusted figures are divided by Toyota's figure, the final values give the number of times that the number of vehicles recalled by an auto manufacturer in the first half of 2004 exceeded reasonable expectation, if the number of recalled Toyota vehicles is used to define reasonable expectation. The following table provides these final values, rounded to the nearest whole number.
This means that GM's rate of recalled vehicles through July 2, 2004, is 8 times reasonable expectation, if Toyota's excellence defines reasonable expectation. For all of 2003, GM's number of recalled vehicles was 13 times reasonable expectation, by this same measure of quality. (See "General Motors' U.S. 2003 Recall Numbers: A Bottomless Pit and a GM Defense?") Source for 2004 recalls: "Vehicle Recalls Are on the Rise," Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/recalls8e_20040708.htm |
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