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Why is America's auto industry back despite millions of recalls?
General Motors has begun the process of compensating victims of faulty ignition systems that led to an avalanche of auto recalls. But, despite reports of deaths and injuries—and publicity over the recalls--GM is still America’s number one automaker and sales are at pre-recession levels. Maryann Keller is an independent auto analyst and author…
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readGeneral Motors has begun the process of compensating victims of faulty ignition systems that led to an avalanche of auto recalls. But, despite reports of deaths and injuries—and publicity over the recalls--GM is still America’s number one automaker and sales are at pre-recession levels. Maryann Keller is an independent auto analyst and author of, “Rude Awakening: the Rise, Fall and Struggle for Recovery of General Motors."
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Claire Martin
Producer, To the Point/Which Way LA?
Gideon Brower
Independent Producer
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Maryann Keller
veteran independent auto analyst
Scott Burgess
Detroit Editor of Motor Trend magazine
Mike Spector
Wall Street Journal reporter investigating auto recalls
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