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It was a bad year for the safety department at Ford, as the automaker was the biggest recaller of 2022. The American manufacturer was responsible for a full 17 percent of all recalls over the last 12 months.

The revelation comes after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published its annual data on recalls for the year. It found that, in all, Ford was responsible for 67 different recall campaigns in 2022, the majority of which were related to the powertrain.

That put it ahead of Volkswagen, which came in second with 45 recalls (11% of the total), Daimler Trucks, which had 42 recalls, Chrysler, which had 38, and Forest River, a company that specializes in the manufacture of commercial trucks, shuttle buses, and RVs, some of which are based on Ford vehicles, which had 35.

Read: Ford Recalls Nearly 3 Million Cars Over Rollaway Risk Linked To Four Alleged Injuries

Number Of Recalls
Manufacturer Recalls Percent of Total
Ford Motor Company 67 17%
VW Group of America 45 11%
Daimler Trucks N.A. 42 11%
Chrysler (FCA US) 38 10%
Forest River 35 9%
Mercedes-Benz USA 33 8%
General Motors 32 8%
Kia America 24 6%
Hyundai Motor America 22 6%
Navistar 22 6%
Tesla 20 5%
BMW of North America 19 5%

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that Ford is also the company that had to recall the most individual vehicles. The total number of recalls, though, did not always correlate perfectly with the total number of vehicles recalled.

Although they were in the top five for number of recalls, Forest River, Daimler, and VW, weren’t the five brands with the most recalled vehicles by total. Instead, Tesla was the manufacturer with the second vehicles recalled by total. The EV manufacturer was plagued by tech issues this year, a large proportion of which were solved by over-the-air updates. Tesla was followed by GM, Chrysler, and Kia America rounded out the top five.

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Most Recalled Vehicle Brands
Manufacturer Potentially Affected
Ford Motor Company 8,636,265
Tesla 3,769,581
General Motors 3,371,302
Chrysler (FCA US) 3,041,431
Kia America 1,458,962
Hyundai Motor America 1,452,101
VW Group of America 1,040,885
BMW of North America 1,000,455
Mercedes-Benz USA 969,993
Daimler Trucks N.A. 273,286
Forest River 203,694
Navistar 104,845

Helping Ford to maintain its dubious twin titles, though, was one particularly massive recall. Its largest recall potentially included a massive 2.9 million vehicles for a rollaway risk related to the shift cable. By comparison, the automaker with the second-largest single recall, was RAM, and it was less than half as large, at 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. for an issue with the tailgate.

Tesla, too, had a recall that potentially affected over a million vehicles, as well as another that affected more than 800,000. BMW split those two recalls, though, to come in with the fourth-largest recall of 2022, which affected more than 900,000 vehicles for a fire risk.

Additional reporting by John Halas

Biggest Single Recalls Of 2022
Brand Affected Vehicles
Ford 2,925,968
RAM 1,234,657
Tesla 1,096,762
BMW 917,106
Tesla 817,143
GMC 740,581
Cadillac, Buick, Chevy, GMC 740,108
Chevy & GMC 681,509
Nissan 664,779
Ford & Lincoln 652,996
Tesla 594,894
Tesla 578,607
Ford 521,746
Cadillac, Chevy, GMC 484,155
Toyota & Lexus 458,110