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 ...

Volkswagen is recalling 47,651 Jetta sedans from the 2019 and 2020 model years to solve a problem with the ignition in vehicles with a traditional ignition switch. According to a filing with NHTSA, ...

If you’re driving a car that uses a physical key and it seems to be stuck in the ignition, the first thing to do is make sure your car’s in park—it won’t come out if you’re still in drive. If that’s ...

Older models of cars used to rely on distributor-based ignition systems. Today, though, modern vehicles rely on coil packs ...

Last year, General Motors hired attorney Kenneth Feinberg to review compensation claims for victims of the ignition switch recall. Now that the review is complete, the death toll surrounding the ...

Dealer alert about potential switch issue covered twice as many cars as recall Company won%27t say why some cars that could have same switch weren%27t recalled GM says talks with federal safety ...

GM will pay $900 million to settle criminal charges with the U.S. Justice Department for the auto maker’s botched handling of an ignition-switch defect and is expected to pay millions more to families ...

Volkswagen is recalling over 47,000 Jetta sedans from the 2019 and 2020 model years because their ignition switches may fail, especially when temperatures are high. The recall includes only Jettas ...

"It's not a heap, dad. It's a classic." That's harder to justify when your classic muscle car won't start. Nothing like a high-compression V8 combined with a battery that hasn't seen a charge for a ...