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GM knew about the issue and sent a bulletin to it's dealers - but not to owners and choose not to do a recall see link :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-18/gm-had-2006-ignition-switch-remedy-unknown-to-most-owners.html
On one of the news channels a GM engineer who worked on the design admitted it was a flawed design and that GM knew about the issue and choose to ignore it unless customer complained to their dealership.
My daughter has a key chain loaded with stuff as do a lot of younger drivers - in particular females. But I bought her a Hyundai Elantra and didn't bother to even consider the cobalt. I once rented the predecessor to the cobalt - a Chevy cavalier and found it to be not only a poorly designed vehicle but so poorly constructed that with hard braking you could detect the flex of the firewall where the brake cylinder was mounted.
GM should have recalled the vehicles and they are admitting as much - in retrospect of course.
I never had an axe to grind against GM about the Saab thing - but the US taxpayer took a $10B hit from bailing these clowns out while GM sits on $27B of cash reserves and they wouldn't pony up to fix a known safety defect.
Might be worth going back to get a law degree as there is easy money to be made off of companies such as this.
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