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Delphi Ducks Senate Bullet over GM Ignition Tragedy. Part Number Red Herring as Industry doesn’t Always Change Them
Normally, suppliers are resentful over the credit original equipment automakers take for all the work they do. Not in the case of the deadly GM ignition switch, where Delphi – the supplier of the switch – was finally called upon to testify in front of the Senate last week. Continue reading
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Dismissed GM Ignition Switch Employees have Gag Orders
Chief Counsel and EVP Mike Millikin admitted such under tough questioning. Millikin went on to say however, the employees could talk to any regulatory agency if they feel the need to. Whether it would be wise to do so is another question. Some of the dismissed GM employees could face criminal charges. Continue reading
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Senate Hearing to Roast Mary Barra, Mike Millikin, Rodney O’Neal Tomorrow
In testimony leaked ahead of the hearing, Millikin claimed, “We had lawyers at GM who didn’t do their jobs, didn’t do what was expected of them.” Those lawyers are among the 15 people dismissed and are no longer with General Motors. Continue reading
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GM Recalls Another 8.5 Million Vehicles for 6 Safety Defects. $1.2 Billion Charge coming
GM said it expects to take a charge of up to approximately $1.2 billion in Q2 for the cost of recall-related repairs announced in the quarter. This amount includes a previously disclosed $700 million charge for recalls already announced during the quarter. Continue reading
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GM Ignition Switch Compensation – Cash for Indemnification
Feinberg has complete and sole discretion over all compensation awards to victims, including eligibility to participate in the program and the amounts awarded. GM cannot reject the Administrator’s final determinations as to eligibility and amount of compensation.
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Four More GM Safety Recalls including Silverado and Corvette
A beleaguered and hapless General Motors today announced four more GM safety recalls covering 428,211 vehicles in the United States. Continue reading
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More Air Bag Recalls at 7 Makers from Takata Inflators
Seven more automakers are now affected by additional recalls of airbags made by Japanese giant supplier Takata. More could be on the way. Continue reading
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GM CEO Mary Barra, Lawyer Anton Valukas to Testify Tomorrow on Internal Report over the Ignition Switch Recall Debacle
If you thought the first round of Congressional hearings was tough on GM and its CEO Mary Barra – particularly in the Senate – wait until tomorrow when The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations holds a sequel called, “The GM Ignition Switch Recall: Investigation Update.” Continue reading
More than 3 Million GM cars under latest Ignition Switch Recall
GM claimed the use of a key with a hole, rather than a slotted key, addresses the concern of key rotation due to a common road event, such as striking a pothole or crossing railroad tracks. Continue reading
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More GM Ignition Switch Recalls and Several Others
GM claimed, “The Camaro ignition system meets all GM engineering specifications and is unrelated to the ignition system used in Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars included in the ignition switch recall.” Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, buick recalls, camaro recalls, gm ignition switch, Ken Zino, nhtsa, saab recalls, sonic recalls
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The Worst is yet to be on GM Ignition Switch Debacle
While the GM Town Hall meeting last week and the following press conference were devastating demonstrations of the complete failure of product development, legal and management executives at GM, the worst is yet to come in the deadly GM ignition switch disaster. It truly is the “switch from hell” as the GM engineer in charge of it said. Continue reading
Center for Auto Safety Blasts Valukas Report as Whitewash
In a completely predictable move, the Center for Auto Safety, aka CAS, has called the internal GM investigation (the Valukas Report) into defective ignition switches that are responsible for at least 13 deaths, “little more than an elaborate whitewash that buys into GM’s arguments that it was a bunch of incompetent engineers, lawyers and mid-level managers who were fired as a result.” Continue reading
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AAA Want More Federal Oversight on US Auto Safety Matters
The largest motoring organization in the US, AAA, has called for more Federal government oversight of auto safety issues, a likely outcome of the Cobalt ignition switch debacle. The organization with 54 million members said it, “believes that GM’s promise of reform should be supplemented with greater federal oversight of the recall system.” AAA added, “A systemic reluctance to raise and react to critical safety concerns at GM reflects an ingrained culture that could require years to fully eradicate.” Continue reading
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Four More GM Recalls – Ignition Switch and Airbag Defects
A beleaguered General Motors is now conducting three safety recalls and one non-compliance recall on about 100,000 vehicles in the US. And – Yes – the safety defects involve ignition switch and airbag deployment defects on some of its most popular vehicles. Continue reading
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Ex Takata Exec Indicted for Seatbelt Price Fixing
Including Nakajima, 35 individuals have been charged in the government’s ongoing investigation into price fixing and bid rigging in the auto parts industry, 24 of whom have pleaded guilty or agreed to plead guilty. Of those, 22 have been sentenced to serve prison terms ranging from a year and one day to two years. Additionally, 27 companies have pleaded guilty or agreed to plead guilty and have agreed to pay a total of more than $2.3 billion in fines. Continue reading
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