Just six months into 2014, a new record has been set for the amount of cars recalled in a single year, according to Bloomberg. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that 37.5 million cars have been recalled in 2014 so far, beating out the previous record of 30.8 million from 2004, with General Motors responsible for two-thirds of 2014’s total.
The total number of recalls for 2014 won’t be released by the NHTSA until next year, but the numbers are expected to rise after Takata Corp., the Japanese auto-parts maker whose air bags led recalls earlier this year, told manufacturers in June that the defective components may need to be fixed again. According to the NHTSA database, there were nearly 22 million vehicles recalled last year, compared with 16.4 million in 2012. With the exception of the record-setting year 2004, recalls have not passed 30 million in one year since 1981.
