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Originally Posted by Austin45
The media rarely reports the full story of the deaths in the recall. The teenager in Wisconsin that died in a Cobalt crash back in 05 or 06 that has turned into the face for the recall, well she was doing 70 in a 35, not wearing a seat belt, oh and she was drunk. How is that GM's fault? How that family even has the audacity to file a lawsuit with the liability shield in place and their last lawsuit before the shield going nowhere is beyond me.
As far as sales goes so far the data suggest that it hasn't hurt at all. They'll be fine. Just have recall expenses and civil penalties to worry about.
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and again, your missing the point. the primary arguments of the case are that the airbags deactivated when the key went to off. the other primary driver in it is that GM knew it was an issue, and choose to cover it up. they knew the ignition was prone to moving into the off position and that the airbags would go off when that happened. that's the crux of it. not how fast anybody was going, or if they were drunk. that's all irrelevant to weather or not there was a design flaw with the ignition.
but you are right, GM will be fine. this will probably end up costing them somewhere around 1.5 billion, but that's not enough to seriously hurt them. and because it happened awhile ago, I doubt people worry much about it when making a purchase.