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 ...

A GM engineer who approved a change to faulty ignition switches in models that have now been recalled also appears to have signed off on not issuing a new number for that changed part, according to an ...

DETROIT -- The General Motors engineer who approved modifying a faulty ignition switch design in 2006 without changing the part number or pushing for a recall told congressional investigators this ...

We're not completely certain where the first key-operated ignition switches appeared. However, we are certain they've made the world safer for our automobiles. Think of the ignition switch as your ...

A document released Friday by a congressional subcommittee confirms that a General Motors engineer, Ray DeGiorgio, agreed to redesign the faulty ignition switch found in 2.6 million of the automaker’s ...

The decision to change a part, but not the part number, is central to the ignition recall crisis that has swept General Motors. Now, Congressional investigators have released what could be called GM's ...

The problem: In vehicles with a gate-type shifter, pressing the Start/Stop button may not turn off the ignition. Even if the shift lever is in Park and the engine shuts off, the ignition may stay on.

Newly released internal GM documents reveal that the company in 2001 considered -- and rejected – an ignition switch design that two prominent safety advocates say could have avoided the problem that ...

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced last week a voluntary recall of certain Honda and Acura models to replace an ignition switch which may cause the engine to stall. The recall involves about 1.3 ...

General Motors (GM) Chief Executive Mary Barra (C) told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that GM valued their customer's safety in Washington April 1, 2014. General Motors reportedly refused to ...

Every month we receive a substantial number of technical questions, many of which deal with electrical problems. Recently we were in Texas visiting the folks at Painless Performance and had the ...