DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who ...

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors knew of ignition switch problems with 6.7 million midsize and large cars for 11 years, yet it failed to warn customers with a recall until last month, according to ...

Here are 10 key events in the recall saga: February 2002: GM switch engineer Ray DeGiorgio approves the design of a new small-car ignition switch, even though Delphi, the supplier, says the switch ...

WARREN, Mich. - General Motors CEO Mary Barra said this morning she fired 15 people who either were incompetent or irresponsible in their actions involving fatally flawed ignition switches that are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday accused General Motors Co of a "disturbing pattern" of neglecting safety and revealed emails from 2005 in which a GM employee warned a "big recall" ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors knew of an issue with its ignition switch several years before it has previously acknowledged. The company said in a federal filing Wednesday that it discovered an ...

DETROIT — Inside General Motors, they called it “the switch from hell.” The ignition switch on the steering column of the Chevrolet Cobalt and other small cars was so poorly designed that it easily ...

WASHINGTON (Detroit Free Press) -- An internal analysis of General Motors' records found reports of ignition switch problems in certain car models dating back to 2001, potentially raising deeper ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co in 2003 and 2004 made changes to redesigned ignition switch parts on four models but did not ensure that older, potentially faulty parts were taken out of ...

General Motors says it has placed a new-found focus on fixing potential problems with parts and its vehicles in the years following its ignition switch scandal. Speaking to The Detroit Free Press, ...

NEW YORK -- General Motors persuaded the federal judge who oversees nationwide litigation over defective ignition switches to narrow claims by owners who said their vehicles lost value because of the ...