I mean that's a dumb metric... raw number of recalls? Ford's commercial line does enough volume to be its own manufacturer, and recalls aren't fungible, and dif

I mean that's a dumb metric... raw number of recalls? Ford's commercial line does enough volume to be its own manufacturer, and recalls aren't fungible, and different numbers of vehicles are affected... I'm pretty sure someone literally opened the NHSTA site, did zero normalization, and took their headline: https://datahub.transportation.gov/Automobiles/NHTSA-Recalls-by-Manufacturer/mu99-t4jn https://datahub.transportation.gov/Automobiles/NHTSA-Recalls... - Taking 3 examples (note recalls affect cars older than the current year): - Ford, 68 recalls affecting 8.7 million units, 1.8 million vehicles sold in the US in 2022 - VAG, 46 recalls affecting 1 million units, ~300k vehicles sold in the US in 2022 - Tesla, 20 recalls affecting 3.7 million units, ~500k vehicles vehicles sold in the US in 2022 VAG has significantly more recalls compared to their sales, but few vehicles affected per recall. Tesla has one of the highest vehicles affected per recall of all manufacturers despite the lowest number of recalls. All in all this is way too complex to reduce to a catchy headline.