Showing posts with label gm recall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gm recall. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

GM Recalls

GM recalls of cars due to fire risk. General Motors' 1.5 million units of recall due to a engine risk is a serious matter and cannot go unnoticed. "General Motors Corp is recalling nearly 1.5 million Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Pontiac mid-sized cars due to a potential leak of engine oil that could cause an engine fire.
The recall applies to the 1997-2003 Buick Regal; 1998-2003 Chevrolet Lumina, Monte Carlo and Impala; 1998-99 Oldsmobile Intrigue; and 1997-2003 Pontiac Grand Prix, GM said in a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A total of 1,497,516 vehicles, all equipped with a 3.8 liter engine, are involved in the recall." In fact yesterday a top Wall Street analyst warned today that a bankruptcy filing by General Motors Corp. seems more likely in part because the government may have to take some losses on its own loans to the automaker.
What is interesting is that at this moment on Tuesday morning there is no information about the GM recall in its investor's relation or News section of the General Motors' website. We do know that GM and the U.S. automakers were hurting. My question is that how much will this GM recall further hurt the automaker. I found an interesting comment about the GM Recall by the blogger of INTJ who writes the following: "If this was a truly serious risk... Fires would have been reported already, which makes me wonder about the validity of this claim.
Tucano T1 plane wrongly leading to overcooking the turbo during his training stint with air force last year, CNN has reported. This could have damaged the plane but it didn’t happen. Britain’s Daily Mail has repoeted the incident. “He flicked the wrong switch on shutdown and overcooked the turbo,” Watt told the paper. “I think he switched it back on.
It is a variant of Short Tucano T1. The Short Tucano was developed by the British Short Brothers company in order to meet a requirement to replace the Jet Provost as the basic trainer for the RAF, as laid down in Air Staff Target 412. It is an adaptation of the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano fitted with the more powerful 1,100 shp (820 kW) Garrett turboprop engine in place of the EMB-312’s 750 shp (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine, to give higher climb performance.
(AGI) - Londra, 14 apr. - Ha premuto l'interruttore sbagliato e ha mandato in fumo il motore da un milione di sterline del suo aereo. La disavventura e' capitata lo scorso anno al principe William durante le 12 settimane di addestramento da pilota della Royal Air Force. Il primogenito del principe di Galles ha bruciato il motore del suo 'Short Tucano T1', turboelica da addestramento al combattimento derivato da un aereo brasiliano.
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