Posted on 06/28/2014 1:03:18 AM PDT by Zakeet
Detroit: General Motors Co., which has recalled about 20 million cars and trucks in North America this year, added 428,111 more US vehicles to that tally, including its redesigned full-sized pickups and large sport-utility vehicles.
GM said it needs to recalibrate software that controls the gears to fix the four-wheel drive on 392,459 pickups and SUVs, including the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups from 2014 and 2015 model years and the 2015 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban. The effected models can switch into neutral on their own, the automaker said on Friday in an e-mailed statement.
If this occurs while a vehicle is in motion, no power will go to the wheels, the Detroit-based company said in the statement. If the vehicle is stopped or parked, it may roll away if the parking brake is not set.
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Just the quality of a UAW-owned and government-backed company one would expect.
This may have changed in recent years, but the old Silverado’s had less legroom than the Fords.
Kudos to you, KevinB. I was going to say the same thing. The Wall St. Journal, no less.
When GM was taken over,didn’t they get a lot of new people in management positions,some of who knew little or nothing about the business or the vehicles? What is their situation nowadays? Have they got any real car people in there running things or not? Sounds like maybe not yet.
In case anyone was wondering,I am not anti-GM;drive one now. They have built some fine vehicles at different points in time.
I grew up being a huge GM guy.
My last GM was a 1980 Z-28.
As a teen I owned TWO Z-28’s the ‘80 and a ‘78.
Yea I understand those cars limitations but that is besides the point, at the time they were both pretty sweet.
As a TEENAGER I was able to own TWO real nice Chevy Z-28’s.
Just read about the NEW 2015 Z-28 in car and Driver.
it’s going for something like 70-80 grand$$.
Times have changed....looks like this ex-teen has seen his last Z-28.
I can't answer any of the questions you pose, but I would assume that the "management style" became more like that of the government that stuck it's finger into the pile.
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