SAN FRANCISCO — While Ford Motor Co. maintains that alleged defects in its ignition system in 20 million cars don't cause stalling or endanger passengers, a series of lawsuits nationwide blame ...

An Alameda County judge gave final approval this morning to a nationwide settlement in five class-action lawsuits against Ford Motor Co. over an ignition problem that causes vehicles to abruptly stall ...

A California judge declared Wednesday that Ford Motor Co. had deceived safety regulators and consumers concerning a stalling problem in millions of its vehicles and ordered the firm to replace faulty ...

Also, internal Ford memos indicate the company was concerned that the ignition design could make engines stall — resulting in “rapid catastrophic failure” — at high temperatures. Most of the records ...

In a statement released over the Internet, Ford says the "issue in the case is whether some of our vehicles from 1983 to 1995 should have had the ignition module mounted in another location on the ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. must replace defective ignition devices on an estimated 2 million California vehicles prone to stalling, a judge ruled Friday. The order, which would cost Ford ...

SAN FRANCISCO – While Ford Motor Co. maintains that alleged defects in its ignition system in 20 million cars don’t cause stalling or endanger passengers, a series of lawsuits nationwide blame ...