Ford (NYSE:F) ran into more issues with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) and was hit with a $165M fine after the regulator found that the company delayed a recall of more than 620K vehicles and gave consumers inaccurate information regarding a faulty rear camera.

The federal government announced on Thursday that it has levied a $165 million civil penalty against the Ford Motor Company over the automaker's failure to comply with federal recall requirements. It is the second largest penalty in the history of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Ford Motor Co. will be forced to pay the second largest civil penalty by an automaker after the federal government said the company did not act fast enough to issue a recall over faulty rearview cameras.

Ford Motor Co. must pay $165 million for failing to properly recall unsafe vehicles, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced o

Ford Motor Co. will pay a penalty of up to $165 million to the U.S. government for moving too slowly on a recall and failing to give accurate recall information. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in a statement Thursday that the civil penalty is the second-largest in its 54-year history.

The U.S. auto-safety agency said Ford failed to recall more than 600,000 vehicles with defective parts in a timely manner.

The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has imposed a $165 million penalty on Ford Motor for failing to meet federal recall standards. It was the second-largest civil penalty in the agency’s history.

NHTSA fined Ford $165 million for being slow to issue a recall for defective rearview cameras.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Ford was too slow to recall vehicles with faulty rearview cameras, and it failed to give the agency complete information, which is required by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act.