When Jack Baruth wrote a post about Chevy Sonics being recalled for missing brake pads, some readers thought that TTAC might be cherry picking the recall reports, perhaps because of some institutional prejudices around here. Jack pointed out that recalls are a fairly frequent thing whereas cars shipped without functioning brakes are hopefully a much rarer, and thus newsworthy occurrence. In another newsworthy event, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called on NHTSA, the federal agency that handles things like car and truck recalls, to explain its actions in regard to how it investigated and reported the events surrounding the reported fire in a Chevy Volt that NHTSA had crash tested and flipped over.
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Tagged as Chevrolet, Chevrolet Volt, fire, Ford, ford escape, Mazda, mazda tribute, Recall, Safety
Tagged as Chevrolet, Chevrolet Volt, fire, Ford, ford escape, Mazda, mazda tribute, Recall, Safety
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