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To find that out sooner rather than later and that is why they questioned him in the hospital. all right, general motors issued its 29th recall alone this year. this time involving 2008 chevrolets, together, the 29 recalls involved more than 15 million cars worldwide, which is a record, in case you wonder. the surge caused by the ignition switch tied to the deaths, gm knew about the problem for at least a decade before recalling the vehicles. mary barra told lawmakers that gm going forward intended to root out problems quickly. so the question is, is that what we're seeing now or are there o...

Closets, going through, finding every issue they've had in the past that maybe should have been a recall and making it a recall. >> reporter: so far fixing all the recalled cars will cost gm $1.7 billion this year. and the stock is down 18% year to date. but what might be surprising is all the recalls haven't made a dent in gm sales, which were 7% higher in april than a year ago. >> what gm is doing is talking, saying that we're going to be a good corporate citizen. but they've said the same thing in the past. the proof is really in the pudding. >> reporter: and brianna, the question is are th...

$35 million fine. let's go to cnn automotive writer peter deval less depena. you have 29 recalls in the matter of five months. that's a lot. >> it's an awful lot. >> one thing you have to keep in mind is this all started with one very large recall of gm older cars for an ignition switch program. after that gm got caught basically relaying a recall, not recalling cars quickly enough. they want to make sure that doesn't happen again. what they're doing right now is going back through all of their records, cleaning out the closet, finding any issue that's possibly safety related from the past yea...

1.3 million suvs recalled for a seatbelt defect. 1.1 million are older models being recalled as part of a transmission cable issue that caused at least 18 crashes. no deaths tied to any of these recalls. all told, general motors recalled 13.6 million vehicles in the united states alone. the most serious being that ignition switch defect which gm says is tied to at least 13 deaths. they are a company trying to get out in front because they didn't tell anyone about the defect for a decade. >> at least change the way they handle these situations. a few minutes before the hour, breaking news overn...

Not been a good year for gm. yesterday, the company issued another round of recalls, prompts "usa today" to ask "are that there any gm cars that haven't been recalled?" so far this year, the company has issued 29 recalls including 16 this quarter. the latest including about 2.4 million trucks and cars land likely cost the company an additional $200 million. last week, gm was fined $35 million over its faulty ignition switch which was linked to at least 13 deaths. gm's stock was down 3.4% on tuesday. donny, what's wrong with gm? >> i've worked over the years with a lot of gm brands, pontiac, sa...