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 ...

General Motors was the subject of multiple government investigations and hundreds of civil lawsuits for taking more than a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with a deadly ignition switch defect. Under ...

General Motors said Monday that it will recall an additional 7.6 million vehicles in the U.S. for ignition problems and other safety defects. This latest round of recalls includes 6.8 million older ...

GM’s ignition-switch recall may have reached new heights Thursday, with one auto-safety group declaring that 303 people have died as a result of airbags failing to deploy in two of the six cars ...

Although the latest GM recall does’t affect pickups or SUVs, there’s a fair number of smaller GM cars used by other family members that might drive vehicles that are included. General Motors is ...

How did this happen? A scathing audit of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) by the Department of Transportation's Office of ...

Daniel Perkins at sentencing before County Court Judge Joseph Fahey in 2007. He's joined by his lawyer, Thomas Miller, now also a judge. Syracuse, NY - Joseph Doerfler died in May 2006 when the ...

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors engineers reported accidentally turning off ignition switches in a Cadillac SRX with their knees more than eight years ago, and they ordered a similar fix ...

General Motors said last week that it was recalling more than 700,000 vehicles because of a problem with the ignition switch. GM said six people had been killed in accidents. But CBS News has learned ...

Automakers issue recalls with great regularity, and most don't make headline news. The recent General Motors ignition switch recall different for two reasons: size and fatalities. GM recently expanded ...