2015: Year Of The Recalls
Last year was a big year for the automotive recalls. Pretty much every manufacturer had a big one that came up: GM faced a lot of bad publicity for its faulty ignitions switches, Volkswagen is still working on fixing its Dieselgate scandal and pretty much everyone was affected by Takata's airbag problem.
It would make sense to think that 2015 would be one of the biggest year for recalls... and you would be right. No less than 51.26 million cars were recalled last year, which is a new record. Overall, manufacturers sent out no less than 868 recall campaigns. Note that these are the numbers for the United States, but ours are pretty much the same, although on a smaller scale.
2014 was also a pretty "good" year: the NHTSA recorded 50.99 million recalled vehicles.
According to authorities, these impressive numbers are caused by the government's stricter politics for road safety.
- Check out last year's recalls