motor vehicles

General Motors in the middle of a 1.6 million-strong recall involving faulty ignition switches. Now the carmaker says that it knew of faulty ignitiion switches back as early as 2001, which is three years earlier than previously reported, The Wall Street Journal reports. It's not just a recall that GM is facing: "GM's failure to act more quickly to remedy a defect that is now linked to accidents in which 12 people have lost their lives over the past decade has landed the company and new Chief Executive Mary Barra at the center of three different investigations—including a criminal probe," WSJ further reports.