GM recalls even more than 800 thousand cars and stops selling the Cruze model

The largest carrier concern of the USA General Motors (GM) announced a review of another 824 thousand
cars due to problems with the ignition switch. It is also announced to suspend sales in the United States of the Chevrolet Cruze model with a 1.4 liter engine with turbocharged - this is about 60% of the total output.

As reported in the company's press release, additional measures
concerning models that were sold in the USA from 2008 to 2011.
The detected malfunctions did not lead to any accidents or
incidents, reports "Interfax" .

GM plans to replace the ignition locks on all car cars Chevrolet Cobalt and Hhr, Pontiac G5 and Solstice, as well as Saturn Ion and Sky, which were released during this period. It is reported that cars could be released with
Safe components, but they could subsequently replace them with defective ones.

In addition, Opel, the European division of GM, reported a review
2007 GT models due to similar problems. This step
It affects about 2.3 thousand cars.

Last month, GM has already announced the recall of a huge batch of cars.
The company for a long time did not want to recognize problems of 1.37 million
cars of old models (2002 - 2007 of the release), in which were
Details in the operation of the ignition lock were detected. It turned out that GM suspected the presence
defects since 2004, and the internal investigation showed that similar
The malfunctions caused more than 30 accidents and led to the death of 13 people,
Moreover, the last tragedy occurred last year.

As a result, in February, GM was forced to send to an unscheduled
Online maintenance is about 1.62 million cars.

Excepting the last review, GM estimated the cost of servicing the recalled cars at $ 300 million.