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 ...

The U.S. government fined General Motors Co. a record $35 million for waiting too long to tell safety regulators about a problem with ignition switches in small cars. Here are key events in GM’s ...

DETROIT — Ignition switches once again are causing problems for General Motors. This time the company is recalling nearly 512,000 Chevrolet Camaro muscle cars from the 2010 to 2014 model years because ...

DETROIT — General Motors issued a new round of recalls for faulty ignition switches this week, but the company says the problem is different than the ignition switch defect that sparked recalls in ...

The ignition switch defects that engulfed General Motors are now a rapidly growing problem at Chrysler. Chrysler said Tuesday it is recalling up to 792,300 older Jeep SUVs worldwide because the ...

DETROIT — General Motors’ 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 ...

Here are 10 key events in the recall saga: February 2002: GM switch engineer Ray DeGiorgio approves the design of a new small-car ignition switch, even though Delphi, the supplier, says the switch ...

General Motors is recalling more than half a million Chevrolet Camaros because their key can suddenly turn off the ignition when bumped and shut off the engine- a problem similar to the defect that ...