By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT – General Motors is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective air bags and other problems.
The new recalls come as GM faces multiple investigations over its handling of a recall of more than 1.6 million small cars for defective ignition switches. The new recalls aren’t related to that issue, but the company did say they’re part of a broad product safety review prompted by the ignition switch problem, which is linked to 12 deaths.
GM expects to spend approximately $300 million in the first quarter to repair the vehicles in the new recalls as well as the vehicles in the small car recall. GM announced last month that ignition switches in older models of the Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5s, Saturn Ion, Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac Solstice and Satury Sky need to be repaired.