Boston, MA 09/11/2014 (wallstreetpr) – General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) and Chinese SAIC Motor Corporation Limited recently recalled around 38,000 Cadillac sedans in the country.
The joint venture between the two companies, named Shanghai General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), announced a recent recall, which involved 38,328 Cadillac sedans in China, detailed the Zacks Equity Research report today. The report explained that the vehicles were detected to have faulty brake control software’s, which was the chief reason of the recall. The involved vehicles were manufactured in the period from October, 2012 to July 2014. The company found that drivers were facing difficulty in acceleration due to the said faults.
Other Recent Recalls
This is the second recall event of the Shanghai General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) post their previous recall involving around 194,000 Buick vehicles in the country in June. The Buick case involved problematic headlights that posed a problem in switching off high beam lights.
In 2013, the strict Chinese safety norms had caused several automakers to recall thousand of vehicles from the Chinese market. China alone recorded a recall of as many as 5.3million vehicles, from different automakers, in the year. One of the biggest automakers of the world, Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), also had to recall approximately 192,000 of its vehicles, including Classic Focus Sedans and Ford Focus, from China recently. Ford Focus was recorded as the highest selling compact sedan in 2013 for the company.
Future Endeavor
Apart from this, General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) is also planning to enhance its Cadillac series of vehicles model year 2017, in which the company seeks to incorporate advanced technology for better motor intelligence and connectivity. The company has plans to add features such as advanced self-driver technology, called Super Cruise. It also had additional plans to enable the 2017 Cadillac CTs with vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. It is expected that the vehicles will be introduced in the market within a couple of years.
