By Marilyn Thompson and Ben Klayman
A former head of General Motors corporate quality audit warned the company’s board in a letter in 2002 that it needed to “stop the continued shipment of unsafe vehicles” and “recall suspect vehicles that were already in customers’ hands.”
Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia fell 12% year-over-year in May, and year-to-date sales are down 6%. And it is projected to get worse.
Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says he will use the “human-interest” angle of Chrysler’s rebound from bankruptcy to help Fiat Chrysler appeal to U.S. investors ahead of a listing there later this year.
By Ben Klayman and Eric Beech
U.S. lawmakers accused General Motors of a “disturbing pattern” of neglecting safety and revealed emails from 2005 in which a GM employee warned a “big recall” may be necessary over an ignition-switch problem that was only addressed this week.
By MARCY GORDON, DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER
Lawmakers expressed disbelief at General Motors’ explanation for why it took 11 years to recall millions of small cars with defective ignition switches, and also confronted its chief executive with evidence that the company dragged its feet on a similar safety issue in different vehicles.
