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With Latest Recall, GM Makes a Solid Run at Recalling Every Car It’s Ever Made

Welcome to your monthly General Motors recall update. General Motors, you’ll recall, is an American automaker. It sells people cars and then—as it was again shown on Wednesday—it takes those cars back from their owners. GM’s latest effort to look as much like Meineke as automotively possible came as the company announced another six safety recalls covering nearly 718,000 vehicles in the U.S. “The problems ranged from a broken screw that could cause front seats to move up and down freely to problems with some welds to problems with the power steering,” CNN reports.

GM says the recall was prompted by two crashes and several injuries, but there have been no deaths stemming from the defects. It’s a testament to GM’s dwindling reputation as a maker of cars that such recalls have become ho-hum. After all, the company has already recalled 29 million cars worldwide this year, with 25.7 million of those occurring in the U.S.—including millions with faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths and 54 crashes. That’s more than all of the recalled vehicles by every car company in the world combined last year. And it’s not just the jalopies, GM’s even making new cars that don’t really work. “Most of GM’s recalls this year have been for older models, but many of the recalls announced Wednesday are for current-model vehicles, including about 57,000 Chevrolet Impala sedans from the 2014 model year for the loss of power steering,” Reuters reports. “The latest recalls hit GM’s best-selling vehicles, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks, from the 2014-2015 model years.”

In a release announcing the recall, GM tried to put a positive spin on the whole thing. “These recalls signify how we’ve enhanced our approach to safety,” said Jeff Boyer, vice president, Global Vehicle Safety. “We are bringing greater rigor and discipline to our analysis and decision making. If we identify an issue – large or small – that might affect the safety of our customers, we will act decisively.” Apparently, they don’t test drive the cars before they sell them.

You can check out the full list of recalled cars and trucks here.