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Monday, June 30, 2014

GM adds 8.23 million cars to ignition-switch recall

The General Motors logo is seen outside its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit By Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co on Monday widened the list of older models it is recalling for potentially deadly ignition switches, adding 8.23 million compact and midsize cars that it has linked to seven crashes and three fatalities. GM this year has recalled 29 million vehicles, more than half of them - roughly 14.7 million - because of potentially defective ignition switches. GM last year sold 2.8 million vehicles in the United States and 9.7 million globally. Earlier on Monday, GM provided details of a compensation fund set up to provide at least $1 million to victims of crashes tied to defective switches in older compact cars, including the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion.




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