DETROIT — 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 ...
— 60: Number of recalls issued by GM this year. — 29 million: Total number of vehicles recalled by the company in 2014. — 2.6 million: The number of older small cars, including the Chevrolet Cobalt, ...
The U.S. government fined General Motors Co. a record $35 million for waiting too long to tell safety regulators about a problem with ignition switches in small cars. Here are key events in GM’s ...