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 ...

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 ...

A midlevel General Motors engineer named Ray DeGiorgio has emerged as the central figure in GM's decadelong failure to fix a defective ignition switch. In a Senate subcommittee hearing last week, Sen.

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 ...

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 Co in 2005 decided not to change an ignition switch eventually linked to the deaths of at least 13 people because it would have added about a dollar to the cost of each car, according ...

General Motors is racing to replace faulty ignition switches in the 2.6 million cars affected by the recall, and the company is even offering dealers incentives to implement fixes sooner rather than ...

Mary Barra, the chief executive officer of General Motors, returns to Capitol Hill Wednesday. This time, a Senate subcommittee will ask her about the faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. On ...

After six years denying there was a problem, attorneys for the Ford Motor Company went before a California judge Monday to hammer out a settlement that could affect more cars than any auto recall in U ...

Jim Federico, a General Motors engineer who led an internal analysis of the automaker's ignition switch defect more than a year before the company recalled 2.6 million cars, has retired, the company ...

A trial that was supposed to help settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from General Motors' faulty ignition switches abruptly ended Friday, a day after the judge raised questions about the plaintiff's ...