GM recalling 944,000 vehicles

  More negative news for one of America's largest corporations.    GM has been improving quality all the time. People think, "Oh, Japanese cars are better".   Look at the recalls from Toyota, Nissan and Honda.  They have their share of recalls.   It's a shame that GM will take the brunt of this due to incompetent suppliers.  As usual, they'll...

The Detroit Three followed the lead of Jacques Nasser at Ford in the early 1990s and began to eliminate internal supplier quality management and PPAP, production parts approval processes. After internal engineering supplier monitoring had been made into a supplier self approval regime came the outsourcing frenzy of the late 1990s. The result was that Chinese and Indian suppliers were self certifying...