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.

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Number Of Recalls
ManufacturerRecallsPercent of Total
Ford Motor Company6717%
VW Group of America4511%
Daimler Trucks N.A.4211%
Chrysler (FCA US)3810%
Forest River359%
Mercedes-Benz USA338%
General Motors328%
Kia America246%
Hyundai Motor America226%
Navistar226%
Tesla205%
BMW of North America195%
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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.

Recalls By Brand
ManufacturerPotentially Affected
Ford Motor Company8,636,265
Tesla 3,769,581
General Motors 3,371,302
Chrysler (FCA US)3,041,431
Kia America1,458,962
Hyundai Motor America1,452,101
VW Group of America1,040,885
BMW of North America 1,000,455
Mercedes-Benz USA 969,993
Daimler Trucks N.A.273,286
Forest River 203,694
Navistar104,845
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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
BrandAffected Vehicles
Ford 2,925,968
RAM1,234,657
Tesla1,096,762
BMW917,106
Tesla817,143
GMC740,581
Cadillac, Buick, Chevy, GMC740,108
Chevy & GMC681,509
Nissan664,779
Ford & Lincoln652,996
Tesla594,894
Tesla578,607
Ford521,746
Cadillac, Chevy, GMC484,155
Toyota & Lexus458,110
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