General Motors issued four new recalls yesterday, bringing its total for the year to 13.5 million vehicles, already the most in the company’s history, the New York Times reported today. The recalls — including 2.4 million cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles involved in Tuesday’s actions — represent an extraordinary about-face for the nation’s largest automaker. Since February, GM has been under intense pressure from federal officials, safety advocates and consumers for its decade-long failure to fix cars with a defective ignition switch that G.M. has linked to 13 deaths.
