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GM pressured manufacturer over poorly designed part, email shows

Sub-standard ignition switch made by Delphi has become focus of safety crisis at GM - linked to at least 33 deaths and dozens of injuries

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GENERAL Motors (GM) pressured a supplier to continue producing a substandard ignition switch a decade ago and leaned on the company to improve it even though it could not be fixed, a newly disclosed email shows.

The switch, made by Delphi, has become the focus of a safety crisis at GM and is linked to at least 33 deaths and dozens of injuries.

In the email, part of internal Delphi correspondence in 2005, a Delphi official said the company was pressured by GM to make the faulty switch work even though it did not meet GM's own standard and continued to fail in testing.

It is the first publicly disclosed document showing Delphi's longstanding concerns with the switch, and it demonstrates how...

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