GM Announces Five Safety Recalls

General Motors said Thursday it has informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of five safety recalls covering about 2.7 million vehicles in the United States. The recalls cover:

2,440,524 previous generation passenger cars for taillamp malfunctions
111,889 previous generation Chevrolet Corvettes for loss of low-beam head lamps
140,067 Chevrolet Malibus from the 2014 model year for hydraulic brake booster malfunctions
19,225 Cadillac CTS 2013-2014 models for windshield wiper failures
477 full-size trucks from the 2014 and 2015 model years for a tie-rod defect that can lead to a crash