To do so would have meant two things:
Spending money to fix the problems, including those in existing vehicles.
Admitting there was a problem and letting the PR chips fall where they may.
Admitting there were unsolved issues would take a back seat to the image of shining success of the Obama regime.
How typical, someone decided to double down again, regardless of reality. I sense a pattern, here, where reality is twisted for the sake of the image and the press plays along.
That is always the issue with a business. The cost trade off of admitting that you were wrong versus hiding it or ignoring it and hoping that it will go away.
I have little tolerance for GM, though. I have had a lot of problems with them in the past.
Worst of all, we Americans are all “investors” and so we have a lot more of a right to complain than, for example, Toyota, etc.
Except that when the issue first arose, and should have been dealt with, Obama was just a nobody in Illinois.