General Motors Fined $35 Million Over Recall Delay
18 May 2014, 18:06 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / At long last, the big wigs from General Motors got off their high horses and consented to pay for delayed reporting of the deadly ignition switches fitted to millions of the company's vehicles....
GM Recalls An Extra 2.7 Million Vehicles Stateside
15 May 2014, 15:57 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Detroit giant informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration it has decided to call back nearly 2.7 million vehicles concerning safety issues. Out of the five new recall operations,...
GM Offers Big Discounts to Owners of Recalled Vehicles
12 May 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though employee pricing deals have been accounted as one of the biggest factors that led to General Motors' bankruptcy back in 2009, it looks like the Detroit manufacturer wants to use the...
2014 Chevrolet Malibu, Buick LaCrosse Recalled Over Braking Issue
9 May 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors just announced its fifth call-back in the past two weeks. This time, the recall operation involves both the 2014 Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse sedans, which may suffer from &quo...
This Is How GM Tested Revised Ignition Switches
8 May 2014, 14:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Almost two weeks ago, GM started shipping redesigned ignition switch kits to Stateside dealership service departments. But are these all-new units safer than their potentially defective predecessors...
GM Recalls 56K Saturn Aura Vehicles For Shifter Cable Flaw
7 May 2014, 15:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Anyone remember Saturn? Yeah, that very Saturn that General Motors killed off four years ago for being a very shallow "different kind of car company" with mediocre sales volumes. One of th...
GM Recalls 51K SUVs for Fuel Gauge Flaw
6 May 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if the faulty ignition switches fiasco wasn't enough already, General Motors announced that three SUV models will also be recalled for a minor fuel gauge glitch. Things over at GM seem to...
General Motors Announces First Quarter 2014 Results
24 Apr 2014, 14:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Detroit-based auto giant GM reported today its first quarter net income attributable to common stockholders of $0.1 billion, which is dramatically worse than the same period last year. More exactly,...
GM Starts Shipping Revised Ignition Switches To Dealers
23 Apr 2014, 18:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Detroit auto giant announced today that the first few thousands of kits containing redesigned ignition switches are currently being transported to General Motors dealerships Stateside. About ...
NHTSA Investigates 60,000 '14 Chevrolet Impala Sedans Over Braking Issue
23 Apr 2014, 09:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Following a single report of "inappropriate activation of the emergency braking system", the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started preliminary investigations in order to f...
Defective Ignition Switches Persuade GM to Restructure its Global Engineering Division
22 Apr 2014, 16:43 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Addressing the functional safety and compliance in its vehicles, General Motors announced it will split its Global Engineering organization. In order to wash away the sins of the faulty ignition swi...
GM Ignition Switch Saga Continues with Newly Identified Lock Cylinder Problem
11 Apr 2014, 12:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Things just went from worse to worser for General Motors: the Detroit giant recently informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that no less than 2.2 million ignition lock c...
GM Stops Selling Certain Chevrolet Cruze Models
28 Mar 2014, 17:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has asked Chevrolet dealers to stop selling certain 2013 and 2014 model year Chevrolet Cruze compact cars, Automotive News reports. The request that was sent to US dealers via e-ma...
2014 Cadillac ELR Recalled for Electronic Glitch
28 Mar 2014, 13:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Luxury brand Cadillac is recalling its brand new 2014 ELR plug-in hybrid coupe to fix an electronic glitch that may occur due to a calibration error, General Motors announced today. The recall af...
GM CEO to Testify Before US House on Ignition Switch Recall
21 Mar 2014, 16:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors CEO Mary Barra will testify before the US House Committee about the manufacturer's handling of its ignition switch recall. The hearing is set for April 1. Mary Barra will be j...
GM CEO Says Recalled Cars Are “Safe to Drive”
20 Mar 2014, 10:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / GM’s ignition switch-related recall, which was linked to 13 deaths so far (a recent study claims 303 have been killed), is the hot topic this spring, with the manufacturer being subjected to m...
General Motors Appoints New Vehicle Safety Chief
18 Mar 2014, 16:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With a huge recall linked to at least 13 deaths on its hand, General Motors is upping the ante toward convincing customers that the manufacturer values the safety of its vehicles more than anything ...
GM Announces New 1.5-million Vehicle Recall
17 Mar 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced a voluntary recall involving about 1.5 million SUVs, vans and sedans. The automaker says the new call back is the result of Mary Barra’s request for an internal sa...
GM's Ignition Switch Recall Allegedly Linked to 303 Deaths
15 Mar 2014, 09:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A study conducted by Fredman Research Corporation and commissioned by the Center for Auto Safety, a private watchdog group in Washington, claims that GM's recent ignition switch-related recall ...
GM Offering $500 Discount to Owners of Recalled Cars
13 Mar 2014, 12:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced it will offer a $500 discount toward the purchase or lease of a new car to each of the 1.3 million American owners affected by the recent ignition switch-related recall....