DETROIT - General Motors' (GM) 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 ...

In February, General Motors issued sweeping recalls for several models suspected of having a faulty switch that automatically turns the car's engine off and prevents air bags from deploying — while ...

General Motors recently issued a recall for several different models due to an ignition switch issue similar to the one that plagued 2.7 million of its small cars and resulted in the deaths of 13 ...

Do you remember Raymond DeGiorgio? He was the General Motors engineer who was directly involved with the faulty ignition switches, and ultimately the whipping boy for the ignition switch recall having ...

General Motors will pay $120 million to settle claims from dozens of states in its massive ignition switch defect scandal. The settlement announced Thursday comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled ...

A pervading atmosphere of incompetence and neglect at General Motors led the company to allow a deadly problem to fester for 11 years before anyone acted to correct it. So says a report Thursday ...

General Motors is expanding its vehicle recall. A 2006 Chevrolet Impala LTZ is seen in this image. Tom Drew/GM — -- General Motors announced today another ignition-switch recall for an additional ...

Earlier this month, General Motors decided to recall more than 600,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 cars built for the 2005-2007 model years to fix a faulty ignition switch. Today, the ...

DETROIT - General Motors (GM) faces fresh scrutiny after emails released in a court case show that the automaker ordered replacement ignition switches before telling the government that millions of ...

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel pummeled General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday with accusations including an illegal cover-up by GM and an engineer lying under oath. It was Barra's second day of ...

The new head of General Motors, Mary Barra, goes to Capitol Hill Tuesday to begin two days of testimony. It's the first time she'll be questioned about a safety defect that's been linked to at least ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A trial that was supposed to help settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from General Motors' faulty ignition switches was abruptly dismissed Friday, a day after the judge raised ...