Hope GM is quakin' in their boots.............
GM doesn't plan to harm their buyers.
Chit happens.
No, Red this is where you are completely wrong
GM (or Ford, anybody else) did not plan IN THE BEGINNING to harm their buyers
But once THEY KNEW they had these problems, and started a cover up, settling with some "in secret" and not being public and stepping up about this IT BECAME a plan to hurt buyers.
THIS is what the hoopla is all about. Ford tried the same crap over the Firestone tire mess
Lennox tried it with pulse furnaces. (and I lost one HELL of a lot of respect for Lennox over that, too)
See...............THAT's the whole thing..................."do the right thing." I caught "the same attitude" over the cam sensor in my Ford Ranger, which had only about 70K when it failed. These can freeze up and break the cam. The Ford dealer acted like "they'd never heard of such a thing". If you search this, you'll find a LOT of such failures.
(Not saying this example is a safety issue, just the old "denial")