WASHINGTON -- General Motors said it saw signs of flimsy ignition switches in the Saturn Ion as early as 2001, three years earlier than the first indications of a defect previously disclosed by the ...

Newly released internal GM documents reveal that the company in 2001 considered -- and rejected – an ignition switch design that two prominent safety advocates say could have avoided the problem that ...

General Motors now says the first sign of the ignition switch problem that led to its massive recall last month came in 2001 during development of the 2003 Saturn Ion. GM made the disclosure in an ...