With so many automotive parts being outsourced nowadays it's no wonder that all automotive manufacturers are affected simultaneously. Takata is a good example, their seat belts and airbags were installed in several auto manufacturers cars.
With numerous deaths associated with the GM faulty ignition switches and Takata airbag explosions the public and governments have taken legal action against the manufacturers. This is turn has increased the amount of recalls that auto manufacturers have requested. Is the legal system finally beginning to work? How many more lives need to be lost before there is proactive and NOT reactive action taken by all major producers.
GM faces 95 lawsuits as of July 23 just from the ignition-switch recall.
The U.S. Justice Department in March fined Toyota $1.2 billion for deceiving the government when its vehicles were under investigation for unintended acceleration in the fall of 2009 and early 2010.
Car and Trucks are not cheap, we pay a large amount of our after-tax income to purchase them, shouldn't they at least be safe? Consumers must punish those manufacturers by not purchasing vehicles from them and taking their business to another manufacturer.
I myself have been a victim of an 80's Dodge (Chrysler) lemon, I have changed cars six times since then, but non of them have or ever will be a Chrysler again. This is an example of my personal experience and I'm sure that there are some of you that feel the same way with GM, Toyota, VW etc.
My point here is that we the PUBLIC must financially punish auto manufacturers who have done us wrong by no longer purchasing cars produced from those manufacturers.
Here are some links to articles:
From the US, Bloomberg and Detroit Free Press: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-08/the-year-is-half-over-and-auto-recalls-have-broken-record.html
http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2014/10/19/gm-chrysler-ford-toyota-nhtsa-recalls-record-year/17473167/
From Canada CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-auto-recalls-hit-all-time-high-in-2014-1.2889300
**At the bottom of the Detroit Free Press article there is a table showing the increase in recalls year over year from 1990.**
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