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Safety Head Admits Major Reform Needed After GM Recalls

By Justin Worland

GM's Mary Barra Faces Another Capitol Hill Mauling

By Noah Rayman

Ralph Nader: GM Must Pay Big for What Was Clearly an Institutional Cover-Up

By Ralph Nader

GM CEO Pledges 'New Industry Standard for Safety'

By Rana Foroohar
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GM Fires 15 Amid Scandal

An internal GM report found no deliberate cover up and said the top management did not know about the defect until the recall

By Noah Rayman

Big Recall Spells More Bad News for GM

The car giant is recalling about 2.7 million vehicles in the U.S. for issues like a hydraulic brake booster problem, hoping to raise flags early this time, amid a federal investigation into why it waited more than a decade to recall vehicles with a deadly ignition switch defect

By Noah Rayman

GM Profits Drop 86% After Massive Recalls

The troubled automaker took a $1.3 billion hit after it had to recall 7 million vehicles worldwide, 2.6 million of them because of problems with ignition switches that have been linked to 13 deaths so far

By Noah Rayman

GM Troubles Haunt Former Executive's Congress Run

Articles about the Chevy Cobalt's ignition shut-off problems were written in 2005, but top General Motors officials including Debbie Dingell, who oversaw the company's marketing strategies that year and who's now running for Congress, apparently didn't read them

By Massimo Calabresi

GM Tried Switch Fix Years Ago

Documents released by the House Oversight Committee show the engineer who designed the faulty ignition switch at the heart of the GM recall of 2.6 million cars in February had approved fixes to the system eight years ago without changing the part number

By Massimo Calabresi

GM Pulls Over 2 Engineers During Recall Probe

General Motors CEO Mary Barra, recently grilled by lawmakers about a massive recall linked to at least 13 deaths, says the engineers were placed on paid leave as an independent investigation looks into why it took GM so long to announce the recall

By Noah Rayman

Congress Pulls GM Over for Failing to Fix Defect

A House subcommittee investigating the recall of 2.6 million Chevy Cobalts and other cars says GM ignored or dismissed several warnings about the danger of a defective ignition switch for a decade, and that regulators were also asleep at the switch

By Michelle Arrouas

GM Recalls 824K More Cars Over Safety Fears

The company has recalled 2008-2010 models of the Cobalt, HHR, Pontiac G5, Solstice and Saturn Ion and Sky, bringing the total number of vehicles recalled to 2.6 million. Faulty ignition switches at the heart of the safety problems have been linked to 12 deaths

By Noah Rayman

General Motors CEO Sorry for Deaths Tied to Recalls

Mary Barra, the auto giant's newly minted CEO, told reporters she was "very sorry for the loss of life" connected to the recent recall of 1.6 million vehicles for ignition issues that have been linked to the deaths of at least 12 people

By David Winograd

Report Links 303 Deaths to Defective GM Airbags

The findings come amid an ongoing investigation into the automaker's response to ignition switch failures that led to the recall of 1.6 million vehicles

By Maya Rhodan
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