Even on New Year's Day, General Motors couldn't find respite from the ignition switch crisis that shook the automaker from the executive suite on down in 2014.GM announced Thursday that it has recalled 92,000 additional SUVs and trucks for the potentially deadly flaw. The government was notified of its intentions Dec. 23 — a dubious punctuation point on what became the year of the recall for automakers.
GM and the industry as a whole called back more vehicles last year than in any year in history: more than 63.5 million industry-wide, according to the firm Stericycle, a company that tracks recalls, in 800 separate campaigns. The total vehicles recalled are more than twice the all-time record set in 2004.
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