General Motors as it once was:

General Motors as it now is (via Wednesday’s New York Times full-page ad):

Body copy:

Got that? Your house key = death trap if you’re driving a “vehicle involved in the ignition recall.”

Hey, G.M. – could you get any vaguer?

Not surprisingly, the ad also doesn’t mention this Page One upper right (power position!) piece in the same edition of the Times.

Next, we’re guessing, comes G.M.’s full-page Times ad with the headline, Use no key.

Youse, sadly, heard it here first.