(MENAFN) According to General Motors Co. (GM) website, the company announced recalling 2.7 million vehicles in the United States in five separate safety events, as the fallout from its growing auto safety crisis continues, Xinhua reported.
GM is recalling 2.44 million passenger cars due to tail lamp problems, 111,000 Chevrolet Corvettes due to loss of low-beam head lamps, 140,000 Chevrolet Malibus 2014 model due to hydraulic brake booster malfunctions, and 19,225 Cadillac CTS 2013-14 models due to windshield wiper failures.
The Detroit-based automaker said that auto recalls since April 1 would cost the automaker an additional USD200 million.
In the January-March period of 2014 alone, the company has spent USD1.3 billion to account for its recall of 2.6 million vehicles due to ignition switch defects which caused 13 deaths and 32 crashes.
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