[pc86]

And just to give a sense of the orders of magnitude:

    1,600,000
       29,000

[danbruc]

While I agree with the general point this comparison is not fair - if you sell more cars, more cars may be affected.

[fiter]

If you sell more cars, you should be able to invest more in engineering reliability. The cost should be spread out over many more vehicles. This all goes out the window depending on margins, priorities, and presumably other factors, but for the sake of argument: I'd say both numbers on their own aren't fair.

[SilasX]

Or you could just report recalls as a percentage of production, and have a meaningful metric to being with...