GM Ignition Compensation Fund Received 135 Applications, 65 Death Claims
12 Aug 2014, 11:22 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The notorious ignition switch fiasco that started at the beginning of the year forced General Motors to come up with a special victim fund for those that suffered injuries or lost their lives in cra...
Cadillac CTS, SRX Stop-Sale Order Is a Little Late
21 Jul 2014, 08:21 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although Caddy should be focusing its efforts with the launch of the 2015 model year CTS and fine-tuning the 2016 CTS-V, something big came up and it's not pretty at all. A call back operation ...
GM Legal Staff Takes the Heat at Recall Hearing
17 Jul 2014, 17:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After Delphi's CEO blamed GM for the sub-standard ignition switches, the automaker's Mary Barra stepped up and testified before the Committee's Chairman McCaskill and Ranking Member H...
Delphi Blames GM for Faulty Ignition Switches
17 Jul 2014, 16:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A little while back, we reported that the U.S. Senate Commerce Comitee's panel of investigators has summoned Rodney O'Neal, the chief executive officer of Delphi, on Capitol Hill's ho...
GM Lied to Federal Authorities About Ignition-Related Fatal Accidents
17 Jul 2014, 12:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Another day, another ignition switch headline to make you get cold feet about driving a vehicle designed and assembled by GM. That's seems to be the norm these days and a new analysis further d...
Hiding Safety Defects May Get Auto Execs Prison Time
16 Jul 2014, 20:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Bob Casey are cooking quite the recipe for misbehaving higher-ups in the auto industry. These two are reportedly working on a bill that would punish bigwigs with...
GM Could be Charged with Fraud Over Ignition Switch Recall Delay
14 Jul 2014, 18:59 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Several federal prosecuters have joined forces and are currently doing their homework in order to charge General Motors with fraud over the notorious defective ignition switch recall. Evidence of mi...
GM Replacement Ignition Switches Recalled Over Faulty Tab
10 Jul 2014, 09:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / What the hell is going on over at General Motors? First the manufacturer announced on February 7th that a defect relating to 619,122 cars was identified, but that figure hiked to 25.7 million vehicl...
Delphi CEO to Join Mary Barra on Capitol Hill's Hot Seat
9 Jul 2014, 12:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You might have heard of Delphi Automotive PLC before on the news. It's the automotive parts manufacturing company headquartered in the United Kingdom that became involved in an ongoing lawsuit ...
Chrysler Expands Ignition Switch Recall, 700k Cars Affected
1 Jul 2014, 09:12 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Amidst the recent announcement that saw the General Motors recall tally pass the 25 million vehicles mark, rival manufacturer Chrysler reports that almost 700,000 vehicles are called back over inadv...
Each GM Ignition Switch Death to Be Compensated With At Least $1 Million
30 Jun 2014, 15:45 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The compensation expert hired by General Motors to come up with the compensation plan for the 13 people that died in crashes linked to the infamous defective ignition switch fiasco declared that the...
Mary Barra Vowed GM Will Get Its Act Together, Recall Tally Surpasses 20 Million Vehicles
18 Jun 2014, 16:19 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The General Motors CEO declared today in front of Congress members that she "will not rest" until safety and non-compliance issues affecting millions of GM vehicles will be fixed. Barra un...
GM to Drill Holes Into the Keys of 3.4 Million Vehicles
17 Jun 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Yup, you heard that right. General Motors' latest recall involves over 3 million cars which will have their keys reworked… with an electric drill! The fix involves adding a plastic inser...
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...