Fiat Chrysler announced on Friday the recall of its 1.1 million vehicles that rolls away unforeseen and create affliction when the transmission is not used correctly adding to the flood of recent safety actions by automakers. The recall was prompted after the reported 41 injuries associated with the transmission issues.
The total number of safety recall is improbably to counterpart more than 60 million vehicles set in 2014 after recall of millions of small cars by General Motors due to its faulty ignitions that linked to 124 deaths. But the total stride of recalls so far in 2016 surpasses the figure in a typical year before the General Motors difficult situation, as reported by The New York Times.
The recall includes the 2012-2014 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans and the 2014-2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs. In the U.S., almost 811,000 vehicles are affected, with 52,000 in Canada, about 17,000 in Mexico and almost 250,000 outside North America.
